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ROC Leaders

May 23, 2024

S4 Episode 4: Deb Winiewicz, On the ROC Association & Community

Deb Winiewicz of Halifax Estates is a highly active Member of her community both locally and nationally and talks about policy efforts by ROC Association and what it means to be a ROC.

February 15, 2024

S4 Episode 2: State Advocacy with Margaret Jones

Margaret Jones from Mountainside Community Cooperative in Maine will tell you herself how much of an advocate she is for manufactured housing and resident ownership.

August 10, 2023

S3 Episode 6: Infill and Fundraising with Allie Lechner

Allie Lechner was skeptical about her community becoming a co-op. Six years later, she is now on the Board at the flourishing Zumbro Ridge Estates in Minnesota.

May 11, 2023

S3 Episode 4: Community Tours 101 with Carol Hodgkins and Stephen Hamlin

Carol Hodgkins from Wardtown Mobile Home Cooperative in Freeport, Maine and Stephen Hamlin from North Avenue Cooperative in Burlington, Vt.,

January 12, 2023

S2 Episode 11: Working Toward Better with ROC Association’s John Egan

When John Egan excused himself from a meeting for a moment as his community was discussing becoming a co-op, he

July 27, 2022

S2 Episode 8: Infrastructure, Policy and ROC Association Updates with Board President Marjory Gilsrud

On today’s episode of Ownership Matters, Mike checks in with ROC Association Board President Marjory Gilsrud from Madelia Mobile Village

April 21, 2022

S2 Episode 6: A Flathead County Neighborhood Becomes Permanently Affordable

Last fall, Devynn Fetter came home to find papers stuck in the door of her home in Columbia Falls, Montana.

March 3, 2022

S2 Episode 3: Growing Up In the First Resident Owned Community, with Jason and Jeff Sirles

Nearly 40 years go, 13 homeowners in Meredith Center, New Hampshire banded together to purchase the land beneath their homes

February 17, 2022

S2 Episode 2: Ownership Sure Does Matter, with Bev Adrian of Woodlawn Terrace Cooperative

When Bev Adrian met host Paul Bradley in the early 2000s at an event called the Meredith Institute, she had

November 18, 2021

S1 Episode 16: Infrastructure Projects and Refinance at Cranberry Village

We had the opportunity to sit down with Cranberry Village’s own Board President, Brenda Bakal. While Brenda moved in a

September 30, 2021

S1 Episode 14: Catching up with the ROC Association’s Outreach & Education Committee

At the 2019 ROC Leadership Institute, a new committee was formed to serve as a peer-to-peer support network for Resident

September 2, 2021

S1 Episode 12: Community Solar at Lakeville Village

All across the country, Resident Owned Communities are doing powerful things! On this episode of Ownership Matters, we’re joined by

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