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Phase 1 of our cavity-wall retrofit wrapped this morning. 32 homes done, bills already projected 18% lower. Sharing the contractor brief on the Retrofit board for anyone planning the same — happy to walk anyone through what worked.
New preprint out: indoor-air monitoring across 412 social-housing units in Greater Manchester. Damp-flagged homes show 2.3× higher PM2.5 even after ventilation upgrades. Co-ops in the network welcome to join the follow-up cohort — reply here or DM.
Question for the network: how are you handling proxy voting at the General Assembly when members are working abroad? We're drafting a bylaw amendment and would love to see how other co-ops solved this without weakening the one-member-one-vote principle.
📣 The Collecting Project just cleared £312,000 in matched member savings this quarter — the third consecutive growth quarter. Full breakdown and which projects it unlocks at next Thursday's open assembly (link in the Events board). Everyone welcome.
A comparison of cooperative bylaws across five countries and what makes democratic housing endure.
Read more →The data linking ventilation, mould remediation and respiratory health in social housing.
Read more →How a disused plot became food, biodiversity and a gathering place — and the economics behind it.
Read more →A transparent model for community investment that any cooperative can adopt and adapt.
Read more →Evidence that deep retrofits can lower emissions and bills while keeping communities in place.
Read more →Five evidenced lessons on tenure, health and resilience for officials writing housing strategy.
Read more →Different countries, shared challenges. The forum is organised around the questions every community is asking.
Clean air, damp-free homes, retrofits and the health outcomes that follow.
Tenure, affordability, governance and the right to a secure, dignified home.
Adapting homes and neighbourhoods to heat, flood and a changing climate.
Bylaws, finance and democratic governance that other communities can reuse.
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