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Can shared ownership #KeepPeopleInTheirHomes?

Hi, everyone. I was inspired after yesterday’s group conversation to record my post this week, rather than write it. Thank you for watching. Credit unions have the power to act, to make emergency loans (with our money!) to keep people in their homes and forestall an eviction and foreclosure crisis. We have the power toContinue reading “Can shared ownership #KeepPeopleInTheirHomes?”

We Own It

Five years ago, I founded We Own It to be a social movement-building organization inside the cooperative sector. (If you’re curious, you can see the talk I gave at the annual food co-op conference in 2014 that led to founding We Own It.) It took the crisis of my health care co-op (Group Healthcare CooperativeContinue reading “We Own It”