Housing the Co-op
Author | : Sascha Delz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-11 |
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ISBN | : 9783944074474 |
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Author | : Sascha Delz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783944074474 |
Author | : John Hands |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2015-10-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780993371905 |
At a time of growing housing crisis in Britain this republication of John Hands's classic Housing Co-operatives could not be timelier. It provides a unique mixture of theory and practice, showing from other countries and from the author's own experience how housing co-operatives can work and how they can fail. In a new Introduction John Hands argues that the creation of a third tenure for housing in Britain distinct from both individual owner occupation on the one hand and tenancy-whether from private or social landlord-on the other hand is urgently needed. The par value housing co-operative provides the residents with all the benefits of ownership in terms of control and decision-making, but it is housing for use, not property for investment. Moreover, as the book shows, a well-structured co-operative promotes the development of community values based on mutual aid and shared responsibility for their homes and immediate neighbourhood. REVIEWS "This is a book for those who believe in the power of people to shape their own lives." -The Catholic Herald "Shock, horror, drama. A new book is out about housing which says it's all about people and not about social engineering or investing for your old age...it's by John Hands who has actually succeeded in doing what he's talking about, which is to set up co-operative housing schemes that actually work." -The Guardian John Hands' timely and exemplary guide is marvellous...this is a book for all concerned in with the role of and effects of housing in this society of ours." -The Architects' Journal "A most powerful mixture of common sense and idealism, a practical man's gospel and a visionary's handbook...this is a book intended to influence events here and now." -Building "The most comprehensive account we have of co-operative principles applied to housing, the experience of other countries, and the possibilities...John Hands' book is going to be indispensable." -Colin Ward in Municipal Engineering "He shows how housing co-ops could offer, in the immediate future, a valuable alternative form of social ownership in housing, enabling people to collectively own and control one of their fundamental human rights-housing-on the basis of mutual aid rather than individual gain or distant bureaucracy." -Housing Review "The strengths and pitfalls of a co-operative framework for housing are made admirably clear." -Architectural Design "A unique mixture, thorough and practically written by a person who has spent the last seven years working full-time in developing and managing housing co-operatives... One feels that a penetrating mind has been brought to bear on the subject and the book will be of great use not only to both professionals and tenants but also to anyone who cares about one of the common ills of today-the alienation and loneliness of individuals in modern urban society." -Voluntary Housing "Housing managers will find the book not only a valuable and interesting source of practical information about housing co-operatives, but also stimulating and provocative in its penetrating observations on recent housing policies and on social and community problems besetting modern urban society." -Housing Monthly "The importance of this book is that it not only states clearly what needs to be done but goes on to discuss in detail how it is to be done... This is a book to study and discuss." -Co-operative News "The major contribution his book should make to what we call the British Co-operative Movement should be one of challenge and stimulation." -Co-operative Review "John Hands has recently published an important book on housing co-operatives in which he surveys his experiences and findings...he does not shrink from employing a critical yardstick to housing co-operatives in other countries and outlines his views about the practical action to be taken in present and future circumstances." -International Co-operative Alliance Housing Bulletin
Author | : Leslie Cole |
Publisher | : Borealis |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Housing, Cooperative |
ISBN | : 9780888873545 |
Author | : United States. Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Office of Community Investment |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United Nations Centre for Human Settlements |
Publisher | : UN-HABITAT |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Housing, Cooperative |
ISBN | : 9789211311006 |
Author | : Robert M. Fogelson |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2022-10-18 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0691234744 |
One of the nation’s foremost urban historians traces the history of cooperative housing in New York City from the 1920s through the 1970s As World War II ended and Americans turned their attention to problems at home, union leaders and other prominent New Yorkers came to believe that cooperative housing would solve the city’s century-old problem of providing decent housing at a reasonable cost for working-class families. Working-Class Utopias tells the story of this ambitious movement from the construction of the Amalgamated Houses after World War I to the building of Co-op City, the world’s largest housing cooperative, four decades later. Robert Fogelson brings to life a tumultuous era in the life of New York, drawing on a wealth of archival materials such as community newspapers, legal records, and personal and institutional papers. In the early 1950s, a consortium of labor unions founded the United Housing Foundation under the visionary leadership of Abraham E. Kazan, who was supported by Nelson A. Rockefeller, Robert F. Wagner Jr., and Robert Moses. With the help of the state, which provided below-market-rate mortgages, and the city, which granted tax abatements, Kazan’s group built large-scale cooperatives in every borough except Staten Island. Then came Co-op City, built in the Bronx in the 1960s as a model for other cities but plagued by unforeseen fiscal problems, culminating in the longest and costliest rent strike in American history. Co-op City survived, but the United Housing Foundation did not, and neither did the cooperative housing movement. Working-Class Utopias is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the housing problem that continues to plague New York and cities across the nation.
Author | : Midwest Association of Housing Cooperatives |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stephen McKevitt |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467146234 |
For one hundred years, housing cooperatives in various sizes and shapes have been a positive part of the urban landscape of Washington, D.C. Co-ops first arose in the city in the 1920s. Building slowed during the Great Depression, but their numbers expanded after World War II. Conversions expanded their numbers, and the model thrived and became a vital part of the city's fabric. Local historian Steve McKevitt tells the stories of the architecture and development of each District co-op with both historic and modern images.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Housing, Cooperative |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lottie Cohen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Housing, Cooperative |
ISBN | : |