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cooperatives advocated by former UN special rapporteur on right to housing, in Guardian
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Tim McCormick
Jun 2, 2022, 5:35:44 PM6/2/22
to Oregon Cooperative Housing Network
in: "Here’s how rocketing rents and unaffordable house prices can be fixed," by Leilani Farha, The Guardian, June 2, 2022.
"Land trusts and housing cooperatives have already shown that there are viable alternatives to the extractive model of housing investment that turns our homes into financial assets. But these types of hopeful initiatives will remain small-scale unless governments recognise two things: first, that the current system is broken, and second, that those who contributed to the crisis are not the best placed to solve it.
"We have an unprecedented opportunity to guarantee the human right to housing through regulatory changes that would obligate investors to play a positive role in society, rather than a real-life game of monopoly."
[note, personally I have doubts about Farha's view that "There is a growing consensus that embracing housing as a human right is key to solving the housing crisis." There's a long history of things being a theoretical right but not a practical reality, and of idealistic/theoretical angles in housing failing, backfiring, or being co-opted. Material/economic outcomes such as abundant & human-needs-responsive housing provision are not easily decreed.
However, we can certainly see how certain State interventions or reforms could really help reshape housing to more social beneficial ends. Co-ops and affordable ownership housing is presently quite disadvantaged in Oregon state funding and policy in ways currently.
See ORCoOp Legislative Agenda for specific ways we advocate adressing these issues.]
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