4 Pillars of How Cooperatives Improve Mental Health
Living in community can drastically heal people’s personal wounds. Cooperative residents with social anxiety, self-consciousness, trust-issues, and other social ills notice great personal healing after living in community. They don’t […]
Cooperatives are Skill Sharing Playgrounds
By: Sarah Ditton — Development & Operations Where can you learn to garden, to perform hooping tricks, and to fix your bike all in one place? You’ll have a pretty […]
Sharing: A radical, sustainable Act
By: Sarah Ditton — Development & Sustainability Sharing is the status quo within housing cooperatives. Cooperatives are defined by people sharing space, decision-making power, buying power, and chores. Oftentimes, cooperative […]
Co-ops Are Safe Havens for Diversity
By: Sarah Ditton — Development & Operations “If everybody’s the same, you don’t really learn much, right? You aren’t necessarily challenged to grow and you’re also not really being inclusive. […]
Down with Commuting
By: Sarah Ditton — Development & Operations According to a 2019 Boulder Community Profile, “an estimated 58,000 people travel into the city of Boulder every day for work, as commuters […]
Expanding Perspective: Social Justice Training Series
By: Sarah Ditton — Development & Operations All of us benefit from looking at our societal programming. Since the day were were born, society has taught us how to understand […]
I would absolutely welcome a BHC cooperative in my neighborhood
By: Jennifer Fluri – A feminist political geographer, professor at CU Boulder, and BHC Board Rep. Cooperative housing in Boulder through the Boulder Housing Coalition (BHC) is a dynamic and […]
The Benefits of Living in an Intentional Cooperative Community During a Pandemic
By: Brian Klocke – Masala Resident and Board Rep. I know several people that have struggled to deal with some combination of feelings of isolation, loneliness, depression, despair or anxiety […]
Beyond the Student Co-op
By: Michael Stephens – Chrysalis Resident and Board Rep. If you’re like I was a few years ago, you might think “co-op housing” is practically synonymous with “student co-ops,” and […]
I Exist Because of Co-ops.
By: Kurt Nordback – BHC Board Member. My parents grew up poor in Michigan: my dad, Orval, in the mining country of the upper peninsula; my mom, Nina, near Detroit. […]
