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-===== Resources about cohousing, co-operatives, and housing in Australia =====
+===== Resources and links =====
 ==== Podcasts ====
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+[[https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/sage-godrei/episodes/Ep-18-Benefits-of-Housing-Co-ops-with-Linda-Seaborn-from-BCCM-e2hk75k | Dreams to Realty: Benefits of Housing Co-Ops with Linda Seaborn from BCCM (March 2024)]]
+"Sage a researcher and reporter shares insights from a Senior Policy Advisor at the Business Council of Co-ops and Mutuals Australia. The benefits of the housing co-op model is discussed and Linda shares insights from her experience living in a housing co-op in Tasmania and researching them globally."
+[[https://www.theelephantintheroom.com.au/podcasts/392 | Elephant In The Room Property Podcast - Building community, not just property (392)]]
+"In this episode, we’re joined by Tim Riley, founder of Property Collectives, to explore a new way of thinking about housing—one rooted in collaboration, not speculation. Tim breaks down how the group build model works, why it’s gaining traction, and how it empowers people to co-create their homes rather than buy off the plan.
+We cover a wide range of topics, including long-term land leases, co-op residency structures, cost-based living models, and how these ideas could offer an alternative to rising rents and traditional home ownership. Tim also talks through the realities of group decision-making, equity capital requirements, and the mindset shift needed to embrace collective development.
+If you’re interested in housing affordability, innovative ownership structures, or just want to understand where the future of property might be heading, this conversation is packed with insights."
+[[https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/theminefield/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-housing-affordability/13888344 | The Minefield - How do you solve a problem like housing affordability? (2022)]]
+"Think about how differently the very concept of “housing” looks from the perspective of either side of the ownership divide. On one side, for many who are already home-owners, the “house” represents an investment, a commodity, accumulated capital, potential profit (in short, “real estate”); on the other side, “house” is an object of longing for stability, community, wellbeing, for a place in the world, a place of one’s own, a safeguard against an uncertain future (in short, “home”). In her classic study Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses, Marjorie Garber points to the difference between “doing over” a house for resale — whose renovations, she says, are often “self-indulgent, trivial, and consumerist” — and the notion of “making a home” which “implies an ethical or moral commitment that transcends mere things, mere ‘stuff’, from collectibles to plumbing fixtures.”"
 ==== Articles ====
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 "In 2002 the Berlin Senate cut funding for all housing programs. It was broke. With this change in policy, along with a severe economic recession, investors and developers effectively stopped building housing. At this time many people, mainly families who wanted to remain in the inner city, were not finding what they wanted, predominately in the rental market. Architects picked up on this potential market and started to develop projects themselves with a design for an empty site, then found enough partners to buy it and build."
+[[https://acha.coop/co-op-housing-in-australia/ | Co-op Housing in Australia]]
+Covers history, financing and legal background for housing co-ops in Australia.
+[[https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/-/media/corporate/files/projects/vision-setting/alternative-housing-ideas/the-third-way_a-cooperative-affordable-rental-model-for-sydney.pdf | The Third Way: A Cooperative Affordable Rental Model for Sydney (2019)]]
+Short handout produced for the City of Sydney describing the co-operative housing model and a proposed pilot project.
 ==== Reports and long form ====
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 The BCCM led a study tour to 3 European cities in 2024 to explore their co-operative sector. This report explains what they learned.
-[[https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/-/media/corporate/files/projects/vision-setting/alternative-housing-ideas/the-third-way_a-cooperative-affordable-rental-model-for-sydney.pdf | The Third Way: A Cooperative Affordable Rental Model for Sydney (2019)]]
-Short handout produced for the City of Sydney describing the co-operative housing model and a proposed pilot project.
 [[https://www.theahi.com.au/jun-24/the-value-of-housing-co-operatives-in-australia-a-western-sydney-university-report | The Value Of Housing Co-Operatives In Australia: A Western Sydney University report (2024)]] [[https://researchers-admin.westernsydney.edu.au/ws/portalfiles/portal/156721441/uws_75497.pdf] | (PDF report)]]
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 Report containing statistics about the co-operative housing sectors across Australia.
+[[https://propertycollectives.com.au/2024/01/guide-unlocking-the-doors-legal-financial-pathways-to-resident-led-housing-in-australia/ | Unlocking the Doors: Legal & financial pathways to Resident-Led housing in Australia (2023)]]
+[[https://www.cohousingaustralia.org.au/resources | Unlocking the Doors 2:
+Planning pathways and advice for
+Resident-Led Housing in Australia (2025)]]
+The guide was funded by a City of Sydney Knowledge Exchange Grant, was commissioned by CoHousing Australia and produced by Caitlin Mcgee (Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney) and Dr Matt Daly (Sustainable Building Research Centre, University of Wollongong).
+It is based on research and consultation with resident groups and various experts in the field. The hope is that the guide becomes used by community and resident groups like a workbook that can be used and tested thoroughly.
+The authors want want it to be a circular guide where your experience of using it is fed back to update and improve on so that all cohousing and collaborative housing groups can benefit.
+[[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dQ0M8quYXBKL4NJAEhhyhF4HgNRxjxwk/view | Cohousing residents report (2024)]]
+In 2022, Urban Planning interns from RMIT surveyed urban planners in local government to capture their understanding of the cohousing model on behalf of CoHousing Australia. The aim of that research was to understand barriers to cohousing and related 'resident-led' typologies within the planning schema and planning culture. The survey was followed by a small number of interviews with planning professionals.
+Using a similar methodology, this research piece included a survey and related infographics developed by student interns (see acknowledgements above) and interviewed led by Grassroots Research Studio. The survey was emailed to all known cohousing/eco communities in Australia and New Zealand and received 35 responses in total. 15 follow-up interviews were conducted.
+[[https://bccm.coop/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Housing-Co-operatives-in-Australia.pdf | Housing co-operatives in Australia (2022)]]
+"This paper will provide a historical overview of housing co-operatives in Australia. It will begin
+with a discussion of the main co-operative focus on housing in Australia, which was the
+formation of building societies to provide funding for the purchase of individual homes. It will
+then look at the history of Australian housing co-operatives in Australia highlighting the trends
+and forms of housing co-operatives. It will conclude with a brief discussion of the implications
+for the present debates about affordable housing in Australia."
+[[https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-everything/ | The Housing Theory of Everything (2021)]]
+"Western housing shortages do not just prevent many from ever affording their own home. They also drive inequality, climate change, low productivity growth, obesity, and even falling fertility rates."
+==== Books ====
+[[https://newsociety.com/book/creating-cohousing/ | Creating Cohousing]]
+Cohousing balances privacy and independence with the benefits of living in community. This new book by the authors who brought you the “cohousing bible” invites readers into these sustainable neighborhoods, and provides practical tools for developing their own.