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Contents: [Housing Co-ops] [Federations, Networks and Communities] [Workers' Co-ops] [Government Agencies] [Other Organisations and Services] [International] [Resources] [Related Issues]

Housing Co-ops

• Balsall Heath Housing Co-op - Birmingham
• Brent Community Housing Co-operative - London
• Catalyst Collective - offers advice on and help with setting up co-operatives.
• Clays Lane Housing Co-operative - London
• Cornerstone Housing Co-op - Leeds
• Earthworm Housing Co-op - Shropshire.
• Homes For Change
• Rainbow Housing Co-operative - Milton Keynes
• Redditch Co-operative Homes
• Stepping Stones Housing Co-op - owns and manages a 30 acre farm on permaculture lines
• Tenants First Housing Co-operative - Scotland's largest housing co-operative, with properties in the greater Aberdeen area, Fraserburgh and Peterhead.
• Two Piers Housing Co-op - Brighton
• Westminster Short Life Housing Co-op - London

Federations, Networks and Communities

• East London Co-ops Group
• London Federation of Housing Co-ops
• National Housing Federation
• People for Action - The national network of housing organisations committed to ideas and actions that put power and influence into the hands of local people
• Radical Routes - a secondary co-operative whose members are small independent workers' or housing co-ops.
• Southwark Federation of Short-Life Users - an umbrella organization representing the interests of housing co-operatives in this South London borough.
• Stepping Stones community - a community of co-operatives based in the Wye Valley, England.

Workers' Co-ops

• Avon Computer Co-operative
• Catalyst Collective - offers advice on and help with setting up co-operatives.
• CIS - the UK's only co-operative insurer.
• Co-operative Assistance Network - Colchester based workers' co-op that provides training and consultancy.
• Ethical Exchange - a directory of organisations managed according to ethical principles.
• Footprint Workers Co-operative - a printing workers co-op in Leeds.
• On the Eighth Day Vegetarian Co-operative
• Poptel - Internet Service Provider
• Suma Wholefoods
• The Woodcraft Folk - an educational movement for children and young people, the children's and youth organisation of the Co-operative movement.
• Total Coverage - Design Consultancy, hosts of Co-opNet
• Wave - graphic design co-operative.

Government Agencies

• Department of Transport, Local Government & The Regions - housing section, providing information on housing in England and the Government's housing policies, publications and research.
• Communities Scotland - the new executive agency, directly accountable to Scottish Ministers, which replaces the national housing agency, Scottish Homes.
• The Housing Corporation - responsible for funding all new social housing provision in England.
• Tagish's Directory of UK Central Government Web Sites

Other Organisations and Services

• Banks of the Wear is a not for profit community based housing association and community development agency, which provides homes for rent and assist communities to develop skills, capacity and resources.
• CHICS - Integrated Computer Systems for people in housing management
• The Co-operative Bank
• Co-operative Group (CWS) Limited
• David Dean Associates - training courses and business support for Credit Unions, Co-operatives, Community Enterprises and Voluntary Groups
• PEP's mission: To foster vibrant, resourceful communities in areas of social and economic disadvantage.
• Tenant Participation Advisory Service for England - provides information, advice, training, consultancy, seminars and conferences on all htmlects of involving tenants in their housing management
• UK Co-operative Council (UKCC)
• UK Co-op Movement - information on worker co-ops, agricultural co-ops, credit unions, consumer co-ops, marketing co-ops and others.

International

• Acme Artists Community in Chicago, US
• ARCH is a resourcing agency for Housing Co-operatives in North South Wales, Australia. It assists interested groups of people statewide to plan, develop and establish housing co-operatives.
• ARIES - brings together co-operatives, mutual organisations and non-profit organisations throughout Europe.
• Canadian Co-op Network, Vancouver - set up to help co-ops find new members, share information and obtain reliable services.
• CECODHAS - the European Liaison Committee for Social Housing.
• City Edge Housing Cooperative in Vancouver, Canada
• Co-op Housing Coalition - USA
• Cooperative Housing Foundation - USA
• Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada
• International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) - information on the co-operative movement in different economic sectors
• International Co-operative Housing Organisation (ICHO) - a specialized organisation of the ICA
• Intentional Communities Web site - USA
• National Association of Housing Cooperatives - USA
• National Co-operative Bank - USA

Resources

Co-operative Housing

• The Case for Co-operative Housing - Report to Birmingham City Council Housing Department by Birmingham Housing Co-ops & Birmingham Co-operative Housing Services.
• Could you live in a housing co-operative_
• Digger & Dreamers - a UK guide to communal living. Database of housing co-ops and list of places needing people.
• Equality of Opportunity in Housing Co-operatives
• Housing, a vital issue - by Chris Smith MP, Labour Member of Parliament for Islington South and Finsbury, 20 March 1998.
• Newsgroup: uk.community.social-housing
• Officers' roles in housing co-ops - A brief guide to the roles of Chair and Secretary in a housing co-op.
• Radical Routes - publications from the secondary co-operative for workers' and housing co-ops.
• Tenant Management - guide and overview.
• UK Housing Co-operatives Home Page
• UK Housing Co-operatives Directory of Co-ops
• UpStart - information and resources on co-operatives, including a selection of detailed briefings on starting and running co-operatives.

Social Housing

• Latest Housing news from the Guardian
• Housing Today - a weekly magazine for social housing providers, published by the National Housing Federation.
• Property People - weekly, independent social housing magazine that covers the news as well as a feature and issue archive, conference listing and jobs.
• RSLs Housing Web Search - UK specific housing information search engine organising housing information on the internet into a single searchable resource.
• The Social Housing Website - news, events, jobs, plus an interesting range of articles in the Best Practice Section.
• UK Social Housing Link
• UK Social Housing on the Web - includes searchable databases, local government information, Mainternet - maintenance help for your co-op, a guide to the Internet, and the Housingnet Forum.
• World Tenant - Information and Links to tenants around the world.

Workers' Co-ops

• Co-op Primer - advice on setting up and operating worker co-ops.
• Radical Routes - publications from the secondary co-operative for workers' and housing co-ops.

Other

• The Affordability Spreadsheet - by Bob Line. A three part 3D spreadsheet which calculates tax, national insurance, family credit and housing benefit for different household types and rents.
• Ethical Exchange - a directory of organisations that are managed according to ethical principles.
• Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) factsheet: Housing and the Disability Discrimination Act
• Two Piers' Internet Guide For Beginners

Related Issues

CoHousing

• UK CoHousing Network

Homeless

• Shelter - a national organisation working to improve the lives of homeless and badly housed people.

Squatters

• SQUALL Magazine
• ASS Advisory Service for Squatters