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1. neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2019 08:26:17 EDT neil 🍄

   Despite a lot of interest, there’s only a small amount of co-op housing in the UK. Most non-profit housing is charitable housing associations. Large housebuilders have a hold of the market overall.

   "the Swiss example shows how these non-state and non-capitalist actors can build quality housing at a mass scale, if they’re encouraged — and that they can create a model of housing provision that moves beyond speculation into something more democratic and innovative."

   https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/06/switzerland-housing-coop-cooperative/

   1. neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2019 08:26:45 EDT neil 🍄

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      This article points to Switzerland and Zurich in particular as examples of more active housing co-op markets.

      Although it doesn’t give much insight into how to get to that point from our current position in the UK.

   2. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2019 23:25:39 EDT Bob Jonkman

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      I wish I had seen that article on Switzerland's Housing Co-ops this morning before I did this: https://radiowaterloo.ca/ckms-community-connections-for-24-june-2019
      1. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2019 14:30:25 EDT Hubert Chathi

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         @Bob Jonkman I live in a housing co-operative. AMA