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About New York's Affordable Co-ops:

The Urban Homesteading Assistance Board and the Development of Co-Operatives in New York City A HUD Article from the Office of Policy Development and Research.

"Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives: A Review of the Literature" by Susan Saegert and Lymari Benitez, a report commissioned by the Taconic Foundation, 2003

2002 Clinton Seed Fund Report on HDFC Co-ops in the Clinton neighborhood

"Social Capital and the Revitalization of New York City's Distressed Inner-City Housing" by Susan Saegert, CUNY, 1996. 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. The file contains the whole issue of Housing Policy Debate in which the above article appears.) 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.

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