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Ebenezer Howard: the founder of the Garden City Movement
Social Justice and the Co-operative City David Rodgers President, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Social Justice and the Co-operative City David Rodgers President, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Social Justice and the Co-operative City David Rodgers President, International Co-operative Alliance Housing Sector Organisation www.icahousing.coop Ebenezer Howard: the founder of the Garden City Movement International Co-operative
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International Co-operative Alliance
“a co-operative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically controlled enterprise”
ICA Statement of Co-operative Identity: September 1995
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Co-operative Values
“Co-operatives are based
- n the values of self-help,
self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity and solidarity. In the tradition of their founders, co-operative members believe in the ethical values of honesty,
- penness, social
responsibility and caring for others”
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International Co-operative Alliance
Co-operative Principles
- 1. Voluntary and Open membership
- 2. Democratic Member Control
- 3. Member Economic Participation
- 4. Autonomy and Independence
- 5. Education, Training and Information
- 6. Co-operation among Co-operatives
- 7. Concern for Community
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Key information :
- Over 900 million individual members worldwide are members
- f cooperatives affiliated to the ICA
- The largest 300 cooperatives – the Global 300 – turnover US$
1.6 trillion – a turnover equal to the world’s 9th largest economy
- Cooperatives provide more that 100 million jobs worldwide
- Financial cooperatives serve over 857 million
people - 13% of the world’s population
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Co-operatives: role in world economy
“Co-operatives contribute directly to improve the standards of living of half the World’s population”.
(Background paper for United Nations World Summit on Social Development, Copenhagen 1995) Dame Pauline Green
President International Co-operative Alliance
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ICA Housing is a sectoral
- rganisation of the International
Co-operative Alliance. It was established to promote the development of co-operative housing in all countries, and in particular developing countries, as an economic and social contribution to the problem of providing shelter.
International Co-operative Alliance
Co-operative Enterprises worldwide
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- Rental
- Limited equity
- Market value
- but some are a
combination of all 3
Three types of housing co-operative
Oslo Buildings and Savings Co-operative, Norway
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Sanford Housing Co-operative, New Cross, London, England
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Kapelleveld, Brussels, Belgium
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Perryview Housing Co-operative, Bexley, Kent
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Norway
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“Profiles of a movement: Co-operative Housing around the World”
www.icahousing.coop
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LILAC Mutual Home Ownership Co-operative, Leeds, England www.lilac.coop
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New foundations:
- Published in January 2009
- Proposes a new form of
- co-operative/mutual housing
tenure:
- CLT owns the land
- The Mutual owns the housing
built on it financed by a corporate mortgage loan
- Members own equity shares in
the Mutual’s property portfolio www.party.coop
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