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 good chance of finding this opportunity in a housing cooperative. A place where skill-sharing is commonplace. When you mix passionate people with a strong community, you […]
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 housemates share much more – emotional support, skills, good (and bad) times, and food. Sharing is truly amazing. It is sustainable and affordable. I’d go […]
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. For me, inclusivity, equity, and social justice are crucial components of a cooperative community,” says Brian Locke, resident and board representative of Masala Co-op. Co-ops […]
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 resourceful method for creating and sustaining community. The BHC staff and residents work to develop communal living by providing and attending workshops, trainings, and lectures […]
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 during the Covid-19 pandemic. All of them have one thing in common, none of them live in an intentional community and a couple of them […]
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. During World War II, Orval was in the army in the Philippines, and Nina worked in a factory. After the war, both enrolled at the […]
Proposed Ingram Co-op at Planning Board
On November 2nd, the Boulder Housing Coalition will be appearing before Boulder’s Planning Board, seeking a recommendation that city staff grant us additional occupancy in our proposed co-op at 4662 Ingram Court (near Moorhead & Table Mesa). In this post we will discuss the reasoning behind our request for additional occupancy, speak to the criteria Planning Board […]
BHC 2015 Summer Internship
The Boulder Housing Coalition is accepting applications for a Summer 2015 internship position. Interns are highly valued and fully integrated into our staff and community. We seek people who are passionate about social justice issues, with prior knowledge and experience of housing cooperatives, as well as excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Background Our nonprofit organization […]
Co-op Affordability – By the Numbers
By: Jordan Mann – BHC co-op alum and engineer. My name is Jordan Mann and I currently live in one of Boulder’s housing cooperatives. Some of you may remember a letter I sent recently detailing the environmental sustainability benefits that come with living in a co-op. Today, I wanted to highlight the affordability that is […]
Allow More Community Housing in Boulder
Dear City Council (council@bouldercolorado.gov), I understand that May 14th you will be studying the question of Boulder’s developing barbell shaped income distribution, and the issue of supplying moderately affordable housing for folks in Boulder’s middle-income brackets. From today’s Daily Camera article my sense is that the focus of the discussion is likely to be on the supply of detached […]
