Our sister site: www.UHAB.coop On-line services for low-income co-ops in New York, including maps and a searchable vendor database.
The Bridge Housing Corporation has a biography of UHAB founder, Don Terner, (who also founded Bridge) on its site.
New York City Partners and Co-op Resources
Lower East Side People's Credit Union: a multiple bond credit union serving employees and volunteers of several non-profit and community organizations in New York City, HDFCs, DAMP Program buildings and organizations, businesses and individuals in Manhattan Community Boards 3 and 10.
Bollinger: Insurance brokers for UHAB members' Fire and Liability Insurance Program.
New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development
Council of New York Cooperatives and Condominiums
Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES)
City Limits Magazine: Investigative news and analysis for NYCity's nonprofit, policy and activist world.
Center for an Urban Future is a nonprofit organization devoted to rethinking, reframing and improving the debate around cities.
National/International Organizations
National Association of Housing Co-operatives
The National Co-operative Business Association
National Cooperative Bank
NCB Development Corporation
Cooperative Housing Coalition
VISTA: Volunteers in Service to America
International Co-operative Housing Organisation
Other Regional Co-op Groups
Anti-Displacement Project (Mass.)
Cooperative Life (Northeast U.S.): includes information on all types of cooperatives, including food co-ops, credit unions, and business co-ops.
Healthy Homes/Green Building
US Green Building Council: includes excellent case studies and many useful links.
Environmental Health Watch: includes worksheets to help homeowners determine the health of their building.
Healthy Homes Initiative: homepage for HUD-sponsored program to protect families from housing-related safety hazards.
Indoor Air Quality: page within the EPA site covers topics including smoke, mold, and radon.
Affordable Housing and Community Development
Fannie Mae's affordable housing and community development site, Knowledgeplex.org.
Articles
"Social Capital and the Revitalization of New York City's Distressed Inner-City Housing" by Susan Saegert, CUNY. An academic look at the concrete social benefits of low-income housing co-ops. (Please Note: This is is a pdf file, and requires Adobe Acrobat to read.) For a shorter, less academic html version of the same research (which also focuses on the co-op aspect slightly less), see this article in Shelterforce.
Introduction to Limited-Equity Cooperatives, from PolicyLink's Equitable Development Toolkit.
Lessons from the History of Affordable Housing Cooperatives in the United States, American Journal of Economics and Sociology
Co-ops That Manage Themselves, by Avin Lipky
Tenant History of New York City 1970-1984
Gotham Gazette
Visit the housing archive for articles about housing in New York.
