Three Maine ROCs hosted tours this fall to highlight infrastructure needs and the importance of the PRICE Fund, which would give ROCs access to federal funding to complete costly infrastructure repair projects. Congressional staffers toured Mountainside Community Cooperative … More »
Margaret Jones, president of the board of directors at Mountainside Community Co-op in Camden, Maine, authors a guest commentary piece urging her elected leader to support the PRICE program. She writes: PRICE is a $500 million grant program … More »
Millions of Americans live in mobile home parks. It’s one of the cheaper places to buy a home. But private investors have been buying up parks in Massachusetts and across the country, threatening to raise fees or close … More »
Danvers, Mass. – Long a part of the Danvers landscape but now taking on a new life, the Glen Mobile Home Park, located just off Route 1 at 200 North Street, has been purchased by the homeowners who … More »
CONCORD, N.H. – Last July, the 69 households of the then-Brookside Village manufactured home community in Plainville, Mass. banded together to purchase the land beneath their homes for just over $3.5 million. They incorporated as Brookside Residents Association … More »
HYDE PARK, Vt. – The future can be an uncertain place, particularly for seniors looking for some stability in their twilight years. And stability was just what’s at stake for the Sterling View Mobile Home Park. A growing … More »
The global pandemic has been difficult for us all. Living and working in cooperative communities lends itself to the mutual aid and networks of support that are needed during challenging times. One of CDI’s Resident Owned Communities (ROCs) … More »
I have been working in the affordable housing sector for a few years now and I have lived in an affordable housing neighborhood for almost a decade. Actually, I have lived in many affordable housing neighborhoods at one … More »
I was so happy to attend the Cooperative Development Institute’s leadership training last Saturday at the beautiful West Wood Village in Plymouth, Mass. Representatives from nine ROCs in Mass. were there and most came in small groups. Folks … More »
I was thrilled to have the chance last week to share the stage with a U.S. Congresswoman – and more thrilled to help announce a great opportunity for ROC members in Vermont and New Hampshire. Tara Reardon, Director … More »
