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Posted on January 20, 2020
We recently hosted our first-ever livestream, featuring members of our Land and Resources Circle: Chris Tittle (Housing), Neil Thapar (Food & Farm),Cameron Rhudy (Grassroots Finance), and Subin DeVar (Community Renewable Energy)! If you missed our online fireside chat, fear not! We recorded the livestream and you can now go back and...
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Posted on January 14, 2020
By Neil Thapar , Law Center's Food and Farm Director Read time: 6 minutes This is part two of #DemocratizeDecolonizeDecarbonize, a three-part essay series exploring the Law Center’s work on housing, land, and energy. ICYMI, click here to read the first essay, “Social housing is the only way forward.” This is...
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Posted on January 8, 2020
By Chris Tittle, Law Center's Director of Organizational Resilience Read time: 6 minutes This is part one of #DemocratizeDecolonizeDecarbonize, a three-part essay series exploring the Law Center’s work on housing, land, and energy. It’s time to think big about housing. Twelve million beautiful and green new housing units in the...
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Posted on December 24, 2019
By Juliana Broad with the Next System Project Excerpt: Recent pro-cooperative policy changes in Berkeley, California have given rise to what could be heralded as a new “Berkeley Model” of cooperative economic development. In February, the city council unanimously adopted a set of recommendations that will support the development of worker...
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Posted on December 24, 2019
By Jade Yamazaki Stewart of Oakland Magazine Excerpt: [East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative's] organization uses cooperative ownership models to turn tenants into owners and give them the opportunity to build equity and intergenerational wealth. It’s part of a larger movement to make housing affordable one property at a time. In...
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