Purchasing Property

Community and Affordability: Innovations in the Community Housing Movement

Session materials from “Community and Affordability: Innovations in the Community Housing Movement” presented by Sarah Wells at NASCO Institute 2024. Throughout the country, housing organizers and developers are coming together to reimagine and embrace forms of community housing that allow for everyday interaction while also preserving affordability. As we seek to become a more inclusive movement, affordability is a top strategy for achieving all kinds of diversity.

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Community and Affordability- Innovations in the Community Housing Movement.pdf

How to Start a Group Equity Cooperative

This short video created by Nitin Gadia outlines the basics of starting a group equity housing cooperative.

NASCO Institute 2020 Session Recordings

Below, are the recordings for NASCO Institue 2020 sessions by room. Please share lessons learned with your cooperatives and communities.

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Creating a Housing Cooperative Development Budget - 1 of 4 - Use of Funds - Video

In this video series, Corrigan Nadon-Nichols, NASCO Director of Development, provides a detailed walkthrough housing cooperative development budgeting process.

Module 1: Use of Funds

Module 2: Source of Funds

Module 3: Operating Budget

Cooperative Housing Development Toolbox: A Guide for Successful Community Development

As community leaders seek affordable housing solutions, people continue to make difficult choices about where to live. Cooperative housing is one solution to increasing the availability of affordable housing.

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Cooperative_Development_Toolbox.pdf

Housing for an Economically Sustainable Future and California's AB 1024 - Video

A video by the Sustainable Economies Law Center. Created and narrated by Janelle Orsi.

This video describes how housing might be owned in a more economically sustainable future, and explains how California's Assembly Bill 1024 (Torres) can remove legal barriers to housing cooperatives in our communities. Learn more at http://www.theselc.org/AB1024.

Join a Community or Start One?

This resource was contributed by Laird Schaub for a workshop at NASCO's 2008 Cooperative Education and Training Institute.

Table of Contents

1. Pioneers vs. Settlers-Personality Profiles

2. The Queen Bee Syndrome-Challenges of Leadership

3. Location, location, location

4. Reinventing the Wheel vs. Wagging the Dog

5. Summary of Pros & Cons

6.

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join_vs_start-community.pdf

NASCO Co-op Organizer's Handbook

The Organizer's Handbook is a comprehensive guide to creating group-equity housing cooperatives. By explaining the cooperative movement, campus and community organizing, nonprofit incorporation, financing, and housing development, this important resource demystifies a challenging project.

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Organizer's Handbook.pdf

Guidelines for Expansion

Table of Contents

Strategies for Expansion 2

Obtaining Financing 7

Financing Sources 8

Appendices

A: Property Information 10

B: Pro Forma: 505 West Green Street 12

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Guidelines for Expansion.doc

Tools for Co-op Home Ownership

This resource was contributed by Attorney David "Rosebud" Sparer for a workshop presented as part of NASCO's Developing New Co-op Track at the 2008 Cooperative Education and Training Institute . See NASCO Development Services for more information on developing new co-ops,

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purchasing_property.pdf