Housing
Amazing Variety of Green Living Options: Together on the Land Tour increases in popularity despite wet weather
Tue, 06/15/2010 - 11:58 — Noemi GiszpencFranklin County, MA – Twenty-seven intrepid community seekers spent a full Saturday traveling the rainy hills and valleys of rural Franklin County together to explore what it takes to build sustainable and affordable housing in community. Some came to meet new people, others to get ideas for projects back home – but all left with a sense of greater possibilities.
Job opening: Housing Program Organizer and Co-op Development Specialist, CDI
Tue, 03/30/2010 - 10:14 — Noemi GiszpencCooperative Development Institute is seeking a new hire to join the Housing Program. The main work of the program is to assist the residents in the nearly 500 manufactured home parks in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island to purchase their communities and manage them as resident-owned cooperatives. The program is part of the highly successful ROC USA Network.
You're Invited: Together on the Land multi-site guided tour of Options for Ecological Living in Community, June 12, 2010
Fri, 03/12/2010 - 13:48 — Noemi Giszpenc=========================================
TOGETHER ON THE LAND
Options for Ecological Living in Community
MULTI-SITE GUIDED TOUR
9am-5pm Saturday June 12th, 2010
Franklin County, MA
Video from Faire Band a' Part Housing Cooperative in Lewiston, ME
Thu, 10/22/2009 - 19:51 — Noemi GiszpencEverybody celebrates Co-op Month differently. Watch a fun 3-minute YouTube video made by the members of the Faire Band a' Part Housing Co-op of Lewiston, Maine, on why they want to live and invest in Lewiston and how the co-op helps them do that.
Co-op Month celebration in Ithaca, NY: GreenStar Market article
Sun, 10/11/2009 - 16:53 — Noemi GiszpencAn article by Kristie Snyder in GreenLeaf, the GreenStar Market newsletter, encourages members to celebrate co-op month in all the different ways available to them, including food, health products, housing, banking, childcare, restaurants, and crafts.
Massachusetts-based Co-op Developer Joins National Network
Thu, 10/01/2009 - 23:15 — Noemi GiszpencCooperative Development Institute will help owners of manufactured homes buy and operate their communities in three states.
South Deerfield, MA (September 17, 2009) — Cooperative Development Institute (CDI) today announced it has been named one of eleven Certified Technical Assistance Providers (CTAPs) to join the national affordable housing partnership, ROC USA™ Network. The group has also been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) to support the operations of its technical assistance program. CDI will serve homeowners in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.
