Welcome to the Boston Collective House Assembly!
The Boston Collective House Assembly is a monthly meeting where representatives from Boston’s co-op houses and anyone else interested gather to hash out ideas and work on projects to support collective living in the Boston area.
Join us in person…
Every 2nd Saturdays from 12pm – 2pm
Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave (floor 5)
[directions]
or on the web…
BostonCoops.org – Our directory, the hub for Boston’s Cooperative Living Movement with a map and resources for co-op houses.
Meetup.BostonCoops.org – Our calendar, with Boston-area co-op assemblies, meetings, workshops, and events.
Wiki.BostonCoops.org – Our collective body of knowledge, with info on running and forming collective houses as well as ideas for creating a cooperative economy in the Boston area.
Assembly.BostonCoops.org (you’re here) – Our face-to-face meetings, with meeting minutes, policies, and proposals of the Boston Collective House Assembly. Check out our Facebook page.
Or The e-mail list…
For Assembly organizers: Where we plan monthly Assemblies, work on website updates, and generally take care of business. Take a look at the discussion online or subscribe to the mailing list here.
Ongoing Projects and Campaigns
House Representation
Our proposal for each collective house in the Boston-area:
Make participation in the Collective House Assembly a house ‘job’ – give someone chore hours for representing and reporting back to your house each month.
Co-op Start-up Fund
Goal:
We propose co-ops add $5 to each resident’s monthly rent to be collected into a fund managed at the Cooperative Fund of New England, to be used as grants or revolving loans to help new co-ops purchase properties or pay initial rental fees, to support housing justice and longerm cooperative living in the Boston area.
We want to develop a fund to support cooperative living in Boston, to make collectives an affordable option for a wide range of the Boston community, including to people in communities historically marginalized from home ownership in the US. We are working alongside and in support of existing housing justice groups in Boston to develop this project.
Weekly Workshop Series
Check out the calendar at Meetup.BostonCoops.org to a co-op calendar for the Boston area, with our monthly assemblies, plus meetings, workshops, skillshares, gatherings, festivals, and more. We’re hoping to have a skillshare hosted by co-op houses around the Boston-area every single week of 2012!
Thinking of hosting or facilitating a workshop of interest to the cooperating community? Throw it up on the calendar! We ask that you follow these guidelines, please:
- The workshops will be open to the general public (not just co-opers)
- At each workshop, the hosting house should give a 5-10 minute spiel or tour or something to introduce the workshop series, the Collective Housing Assembly, and show off their co-op house.
- Anyone can request a workshop topic or even propose to facilitate a workshop without a space. Meetup.com allows us to crowd-source our scheduling– someone else can fill in the blanks in your calendar proposal, by offering their house as a location or volunteering to teach on a requested subject.
Food Sovereignty
This is January’s Assembly theme – look for more info coming soon!
Co-op Outreach – 2012 Year of the Co-op
