The first speaker, Cedar Barstow, has worked on this issue for 27 years. In the 1990s she was caught living overoccupied and sentenced to community service (after having to kick out her housemates).

She used her community service hours to help start the Boulder Housing Coalition, a non-profit #cooperative #housing developer.

https://www.bhccoops.org/

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12 years ago my housing #cooperative invited #BoulderCouncil candidates over for tea and cakes to talk about repealing laws that make it illegal to share housing in #Boulder. Many years of advocacy to enable co-ops as a special case and multiple city ballot measures and lawsuits later, only now is it finally coming to a vote. In the meantime Boulder housing costs have more than doubled. A live stream of the public hearing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA5JVdBVOQk

Boulder City Council Meeting 8-17-23

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After the Etsy strike, crafting a cooperative alternative https://news.techworkerscoalition.org/2023/05/30/issue-8/

Basically, Etsy enshittified, making an income on etsy is worse and worse, the company ignored the strike, now its time to move on to a cooperative alternative, @coopartisans

#LaborTech #cooperative

After the #EtsyStrike, Crafting a Co-op Alternative

Valerie, a leather artisan, talks about durable collective action

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