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2021
"Funding the Cooperative City" delves into innovative approaches to real estate development driven by citizen initiatives and community-centric organizations. The book highlights the roles of cooperatives, non-profits, community land trusts, and ethical banks in creating new mechanisms for accessing and developing properties. Through a series of interviews and analyses, it outlines various trends and contexts while showcasing success stories and models of community finance and civic economy. This resource is invaluable not only for community organizations and civic space initiators but also for private developers and public entities such as municipalities and EU institutions. By fostering collaboration and support, the book aims to inspire the creation of more resilient and inclusive local communities, facilities, and services.
Funding the Cooperative City explores how citizen initiatives, cooperatives, non-profit companies, community land trusts, crowdfunding platforms, ethical banks and anti-speculation foundations step out of the regular dynamisms of real estate development and arrange new mechanisms to access, purchase, renovate or construct buildings for communities. Through interviews and analyses, this book describes tendencies and contexts, and presents stories and models of community finance and civic economy. It offers a helpful set of resources not only for community organisations and initiators of civic spaces, but also for private developers, municipalities and EU institutions that are willing to support, facilitate or cooperate with them in order to create more resilient and inclusive local communities, facilities and services.