Student Housing Cooperatives in the United States

Student Housing Cooperatives in the United States
Author: Source Wikipedia
Publisher: Booksllc.Net
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2013-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781230762906

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: 21st Street Co-op, Baggin's End, Barrington Hall (Berkeley, California), Berkeley Student Cooperative, Brown Association for Cooperative Housing, Cloyne Court Hotel, Community of Urbana Champaign Cooperative Housing, Cooperative Living Organization, Davis Campus Cooperatives, Inter-Cooperative Council at the University of Michigan, List of NASCO member cooperatives, Madison Community Cooperative, Minnie's Cooperative House, MOSAIC (housing cooperative), North American Students of Cooperation, Oberlin Student Cooperative Association, Qumbya, Raft Hill (co-op), Santa Barbara Student Housing Cooperative, Stebbins Hall, Stefan T. Vail Cooperative House, Student Housing Cooperative at Michigan State University, University of Texas Inter-Cooperative Council, Von Cramm Cooperative Hall. Excerpt: Berkeley Student Cooperative (BSC) (formerly known as University Students' Cooperative Association or the USCA) is a student housing cooperative serving primarily the University of California, Berkeley but open to any full-time post-secondary student. BSC houses over 1300 students in 17 houses and 3 apartment buildings. Food is provided to residents of the 17 houses as well as boarders. Residents of the houses are expected to perform work (about 5 hours a week) as part of their rental agreement, helping to keep rent lower. BSC is led by a board of directors elected by the residents. BSC is a member of NASCO. The University of California Students' Cooperative Association (UCSCA) was founded in 1933 to meet the need for affordable student housing during the Great Depression. Berkeley YMCA director Harry Kingman inspired 14 students to start the first housing cooperative in Berkeley, doing workshifts in exchange for lower rent. In the fall of 1933 the students leased Barrington Hall which housed 48 students. Sherman Hall, Sheridan...

Student Housing Cooperatives and the University Neighborhood Overlay in Austin, Texas

Student Housing Cooperatives and the University Neighborhood Overlay in Austin, Texas
Author: Chad D. Williams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2020
Genre: Housing, Cooperative
ISBN:

This research investigates an alternative to traditional affordable housing by examining cooperatives in West Campus, Austin, Texas. Recent estimates suggest that real estate constitutes the majority of global investment, and as much as 75 percent of that wealth is in housing (Stein 2019). Diminishing funding for public housing, land speculation, predatory lending, and a spreading technocracy within the urban core have exacerbated the problems of unequal access to and displacement from urban space. As "new urbanist," mixed-income developments mask poverty via neoliberal policy and market based incentives, there is a need for alternative means to affordable housing that are independent of the market (Hanlon 2010). In West Campus, a paradigmatic case of neoliberal development policy is intertwined with de-commodified, non-profit cooperative living space through the University Neighborhood Overlay (UNO). The UNO policy, adopted by the City of Austin in 2004, uses an affordable housing trust fund that allows developers to pay into the trust fund in-lieu of building the required affordable housing units within a market-rate development. This trust fund is then accessible to the two affordable housing cooperatives that function within UNO. Mobilizing a genealogical framework, this research examines the development of UNO, situating the policy within the broader historical trajectory of the cooperatives and West Campus, and assesses how the cooperatives have used the trust fund money. Despite adding hundreds of affordable units to the West Campus community and giving the cooperatives significant funding benefits, the UNO trust fund has not been able to wholly give the cooperatives in West Campus the means to expand and reclaim urban commons space.