Community response to COVID-19: The case of rental housing cooperatives in Melbourne, Australia and Choluteca, Honduras

Guity-Zapata, Nestor Agustin; Stone, Wendy; Nygaard, Christian

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2022.102737

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“…Limited research exists to examine the well-being differences across different types of housing tenure during the COVID-19 pandemic. But a new comparative study in Australia and Honduras sheds light on the positive roles of cooperative rental housing as a form of community living in countering social isolation and bolstering a sense of community during the pandemic ( Guity-Zapata et al, 2023 ).…”

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Housing and psychosocial well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic

Zhu

Holden

2023

Habitat International

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Housing and psychosocial well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic

Zhu

Holden

2023

Habitat International

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“…Cooperatives are, by nature, a form of sustainable and participatory business that has demonstrated remarkable resilience in the face of COVID-19-related economic and financial crises. During the 1.5 years of the COVID-19 pandemic, housing cooperatives, for example, demonstrated their ability to promote the well-being of vulnerable individuals and, more broadly, the communities in which they operate (Zapata, 2021). Furthermore, according to the United Nations (2021), agricultural cooperatives enable small producers to share risks, gain market access, and make investments in their activities.…”

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Cooperative Governance and Cooperative Performance: A Systematic Literature Review

Jamaluddin,

Saleh,

Abdullah

et al. 2023

SAGE Open

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Despite the proliferation of systematic literature review studies on cooperative organization, a similar review of cooperative governance and performance literature has yet to be conducted. To close this gap, this paper presents a systematic literature review on the relationship between cooperative governance (CG) and cooperative performance using the PRISMA approach. Major search engines were used in the compilation of studies published between 2009 and 2021. A review of the 30 selected papers indicate there are four categories of CG used in relation to cooperative performance: board characteristics, policy compliance, management, leadership and strategies, and the board’s social or human capital. The results also suggest mixed and inconclusive findings on the CG–cooperative performance relationship. The current study seeks to contribute to the existing literature by highlighting patterns and gaps of past studies on the CG–cooperative performance relationship, thereby providing insights for future research.

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Private renters in shared housing: investigating housing conditions and mental well-being in Australia during COVID-19

Veeroja

Goodall

Guity-Zapata

et al. 2023

J Hous and the Built Environ

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Lockdowns were the major policy response to COVID-19 containment in many countries, and subsequently many people spent abnormal amounts of time at home. Research has found that housing conditions affected more peoples’ mental health during the COVID-19 crisis than prior to it, and vulnerable groups were especially affected. One group that may be particularly vulnerable is private renters in shared housing. Using a socio-economic lens, our research examined to what extent mental well-being outcomes were associated with housing conditions in shared housing under COVID-19 restrictions in Australia. Data about private renters were obtained from the Australian Rental Housing Conditions Dataset (n = 1908), collected in mid-2020 during the easing of the first lockdown restrictions. Respondents living in shared arrangements reported higher levels of worry and anxiety (8.5–13.2%) and loneliness and isolation (3.7–18.3%) compared to other household types. Binary logistic regressions showed that COVID-19-related mental and financial well-being variables were the main contributors in COVID-19-related worry/anxiety and loneliness/isolation models. Accumulated housing problems were the only housing condition measure that was significant in the worry/anxiety model. Participants who had more than two people living in a household felt 1.4 times lonelier/isolated compared to those who lived with four or more people. Males and participants who reported good mental health were less likely to feel COVID-19-related worry/anxiety and loneliness/isolation. Our analysis demonstrates the importance of measures for mental health and income during a pandemic and concludes with recommendations of support for shared housing renters during and beyond crisis events.

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Community response to COVID-19: The case of rental housing cooperatives in Melbourne, Australia and Choluteca, Honduras

Cited by 7 publications

References 27 publications

Housing and psychosocial well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic

Housing and psychosocial well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic

Cooperative Governance and Cooperative Performance: A Systematic Literature Review

Private renters in shared housing: investigating housing conditions and mental well-being in Australia during COVID-19

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