Resident-Owned Resilience: Can Cooperative Land Ownership Enable Transformative Climate Adaptation for Manufactured Housing Communities?

Lamb, Zachary; Shi, Linda Z.; Silva, Stephanie; Spicer, Jason

doi:10.1080/10511482.2021.2013284

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“…Specifically, there is a range of emergent organizational forms and models that have been little studied by organizational scholars to date. These include: platform and multi‐stakeholder cooperatives (Leviten‐Reid & Fairbairn, 2011; Schneider & Scholz, 2017), perpetual purpose and stewardship trusts (Gary, 2019), worker self‐directed and other “activist” non‐profits such as sociocratic, hub‐and‐spoke counter institutions, and swarm organizations (Haber, 2018), teal organizations (Laloux, 2014), b‐corporations (Berrey, 2018), low‐profit LLCs (Kleinberger, 2010), blockchain‐based decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs, Jentzsch, 2016), community interest/contribution companies (Nicholls, 2010), community‐based enterprises (Dentoni et al., 2018), community land trusts (J. E. Davis et al., 2020), resident‐owned communities (ROCs) (Lamb et al., 2022), solidarity enterprises (Fraisse et al., 2016), and peer‐to‐peer networks (Benkler, 2008), and the codification of new management practices such as holacracy (Bernstein et al., 2016), popularity, colleague letters of understanding, self‐managing teams, and results‐only work environment policies (M. Y. Lee & Edmondson, 2017). Do these various forms and practices follow and confirm established organizational theory on alternatives?…”

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“…The model has also spread around the world, and is sometimes used in hybrid‐organizing fashion with other, more established alternatives, such as limited‐equity housing cooperatives (Ehlenz, 2018). Meanwhile, the resident‐owned community model for manufactured housing (i.e., trailer or mobile home parks) has emerged, primarily in the US, to secure democratic control and affordability for primarily low‐income residents of these communities, while also enhancing their capacity to mitigate climate change hazards (Lamb et al., 2022). Commercial and business space is also alternatively organized to assure community control and reduce displacement, with well‐known examples in the UK (N. Lee & Swann, 2020), and the US (Theodos & Edmonds, 2020).…”

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Kay

2022

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“…The expectation of member participation or volunteering is a basic tenet of housing co-operatives (Borchardt and Bianco, 2016;ICA, 2012). All member-residents receive the same benefits but time spent managing ROCs is not always shared equally and low levels of volunteerism has emerged as a challenge especially in smaller communities (Bradley, 2000;Lamb et al, 2022;Noterman, 2016). Volunteering appeals to different people and varies over time and could depend on interests and abilities, other commitments and advancing age may result in gradual disengagement (Encel and Studencki, 1996;Sammon, 2011).…”

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Manufactured housing parks: could their residents be buyers of the property?

Bunce

2022

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PurposeThe purpose of this article is to explore the possibility of people living in manufactured housing parks in Australia to collectively buy the property at fair market value and convert it into a resident owned community co-operative.Design/methodology/approachThe methodological approach is based on 20 interviews with occupants of resident owned communities (ROCs) and key informants in the USA state of New Hampshire. Residents' interviews provide an understanding of the motivations to want to own and self-manage the property.FindingsThe findings suggest that, based on USA experience and the availability of enabling financial structures, Australian residential park residents could be keen buyers of manufactured housing park properties.Research limitations/implicationsA limitation of this research was the small number of interviewees who were mainly people in ROC leadership positions and advocates. Another limitation was that no specific investigation was made to gauge manufactured housing park (MHP) residents' level of demand for ROCs in Australia. Although there was some evidence of support, further Australia-wide enquiry is needed.Practical implicationsThe sale of MHPs to resident co-operatives could become a new component of the property market in Australia and residents entering the market as buyers may cause a shift in market forces.Social implicationsROCs would offer greater diversity of housing choice and might further inform decision-makers of seniors and retirees' future intentions. Downsizers moving to ROCs could potentially increase the savings nest egg through the sale of the family home which will also free-up conventional housing for better utilisation by younger cohorts.Originality/valueOwners of residential parks are unlikely to have considered the tenants as potential buyers of the property, but, envisaging, ROCs could become a new type of tenure for Australians aged over 50 years.

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“…(9) Like CLTs, the ROC model promotes long-term affordability and stability for low-and moderate-income households. (10) There are currently 1,065 resident-owned communities in the US, representing 2.3% of all manufactured home communities. (10) Worker cooperatives are businesses that are owned and democratically governed by their workers.…”

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“…(10) There are currently 1,065 resident-owned communities in the US, representing 2.3% of all manufactured home communities. (10) Worker cooperatives are businesses that are owned and democratically governed by their workers. Compared to traditional businesses in the same industries, employment at a worker-owned cooperative has been associated with improvements in wages, bene ts, work conditions, job stability, and wealthbuilding opportunities.…”

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Moving Upstream: Health System Partnerships Addressing Social Determinants of Health through Community Wealth Building

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Zuckerman²,

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Background Health system interventions addressing social needs such as food and housing generally fail to impact the upstream wealth and power inequities underlying those needs. However, a small number of health systems have begun addressing these upstream inequities by partnering with community wealth building initiatives. These initiatives include community land trusts, resident-owned communities, and worker cooperatives, which provide local residents ownership and control over their housing and workplaces. While these partnerships represent a novel, upstream approach to the social determinants of health, no research has yet evaluated them. Methods To assess the current state and key aspects of health system-community wealth building partnerships, we conducted semi-structured interviews with thirty-eight key informants across ten partnerships identified through the Healthcare Anchor Network. To analyze the interviews, we used a two-stage coding process. First, we coded responses based on the phase of the intervention to which they corresponded. Then we assessed responses within each aspect for common themes and variation on salient topics. Results We identified themes across four phases of the partnerships – motivation, initiation, implementation, and evaluation. Partnerships were generally motivated by a combination of community needs, such as affordable housing and living wage jobs, and health system interests, such as workforce housing and supply chain resilience. Initiating projects required educating leadership and utilizing de-risking strategies to obtain health system buy-in as well as conducting a health system landscape analysis to identify both internal capacities and external partners. Implementation took various forms, with health systems providing financial capital in the form of grants and loans, social capital in the form of convening funders and other stakeholders, and/or capacity building support in the form of strategic planning or technical assistance resources. To evaluate projects, health systems used process and community-level metrics rather than metrics based on individual health outcomes or returns on investment. Based on best practices from each partnership phase, we provide a road map for health systems to develop effective community wealth building partnerships. Conclusions Our findings suggest community wealth building represents a promising and largely untapped approach for health systems to address the upstream causes of poor health.

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Resident-Owned Resilience: Can Cooperative Land Ownership Enable Transformative Climate Adaptation for Manufactured Housing Communities?

Cited by 17 publications

References 52 publications

Another organization is possible: New directions in research on alternative enterprise

Another organization is possible: New directions in research on alternative enterprise

Manufactured housing parks: could their residents be buyers of the property?

Moving Upstream: Health System Partnerships Addressing Social Determinants of Health through Community Wealth Building

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