Starting up a Coop

This is a chapter of a larger report called California Cooperatives: Today’s Landscape of Worker, Housing and Childcare Cooperatives. In this chapter, Childcare Cooperatives are presented as a strategic path to addressing California’s childcare crisis. A cooperative that is organized as a charitable non-profit whose members are parents and childcare workers is offered as an ideal model to promote better jobs for childcare workers and optimal care for children and families. The positive effectiveness of childcare cooperatives is supported by research and numerous examples.

This is a chapter of a larger report called California Cooperatives: Today’s Landscape of Worker, Housing and Childcare Cooperatives. In this chapter, Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives (LEHCs) are presented as a strategic path to addressing California’s housing crisis. The positive role of LEHCs in creating homeownership opportunities is supported by research and numerous examples. This chapter includes an annotated bibliography and list of California Housing Cooperatives. By E. Kim Coontz, with Hilary Abell and Ricardo Nuñez (2021)