Resources

• ROC Association announces 2025 Better Together Grants

  The ROC Association is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for 2025 Better Together Grants from March 17 through May 4. 

• Manufactured home owners are reimagining stable housing as local communities face untenable rent increases

  “In commercial banking, they talk a lot about ‘We want to help with affordable housing, so let’s build apartment complexes,’” says Tina McKinstry, a member of Takesa Village, a resident-owned mobile home park in Mead. “You’re making a landlord rich. You’re not making the people rich. With [co-ops], you’re making the people rich.”

• Autumn Tigart joins ROC USA as senior advisor for governance and business

  Autumn brings extensive experience supporting Resident Owned Communities, having previously served as a ROC program specialist with NeighborWorks Montana.

• CDI helps Cedar Falls become Maine’s 12th ROC

  With the help of Cooperative Development Institute and public and private funding, homeowners at Cedar Falls Resident Cooperative purchase their community for $8 million.