Join the BHC Team!
Director of Operations Hours: Part time, estimated at 20 hours per week Pay: $20/hr Reports to: Executive Director Location: Mostly remote, but there is some in-person work so you must live in the Boulder area Start Date: August 1st, 2022 Context for this Position: The Boulder Housing Coalition (BHC) is the preeminent cooperative housing organization […]
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 […]
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 and act in the world. Most of the time, this process is invisible to us. Only upon critically looking at our understanding of the world […]
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 […]
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 if you’ve ever shared a campus with some of those, you probably have a pretty distinct picture in your head of what “co-op life” entails. […]
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 […]
Support Permanently Affordable Co-ops at Planning Board
On Thursday, November 2nd, the Boulder Housing Coalition will be asking Planning Board to allow us to house up to 16 people in our proposed co-op in South Boulder. We offered a bit of background on the project here. We need your help to ensure this co-op can housecouples & families, especially single parents. The new law enabling […]
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 […]
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 […]
