Mango Manor Goes Solar!
Thanks to generous grants from several local and regional sources, the BHC was able to install a solar array on the roof of Mango Manor in late 2021. The Boulder Housing Coalition would like to thank the following organizations for their generous support of this project: Boulder County’s Worthy Cause Program The City of Boulder […]
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 expect this to happen, but it seems to be a common experience. As social beings, we thrive when we’re in a healthy community. Healthy communities […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
