Starting up a Coop

California Cooperatives: Today’s Landscape of Housing Cooperatives

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)

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Model Agricultural Cooperative Articles and Bylaws

In early 2015, members of the Legal, Tax and Accounting (“LTA”) Committee of National Council of Farmer Cooperatives (“NCFC”) began work on a set of model Bylaws for cooperatives to serve as guidance for the members of the NCFC. These are generalized and should only be used with an attorney as guidance for developing Bylaws in accordance with statutes in your state.

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