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 […]
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 make up 60% of the local workforce.” More than half the people that work in the City of Boulder don’t live in the City. Boulder’s […]
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 […]
