Housing Cooperatives in and near Chicago

We have an opening at The Waterside Co-op.

(formerly known as the “soon to be renamed Beyond Today Co-op”)

This Co-op is a 100 year old Victorian house directly across from a huge organic community garden.  It is the community center for BeyondToday, an environmental, justice, and peace organization in the Lincoln Square neighborhood just northwest of Montrose and Western.

The ideal/dream roommate would be respectful, full of life, creative, committed to meaningful work, and has some experience co-op and community living.

It is $600/month with one month deposit and 1/4 utilities, similar to a month to month rental arrangement.

For more information about our co-op, visit our website.

Or contact us 773 931-3987.

The HUB Housing Cooperative in Marshall Square/Little Village currently (Spring ‘09) has a couple units (1BR or 2BR) available for sale.

For photos and more information please look here, or contact Abraham or Annie of LivingRoom Realty at 312.226.3020.

A New Housing Cooperative is Taking Root in Chicago!

Bluestem Cooperative is designed to be an affordable community of homeowners.  We wish to build on our existing diverse community of individuals and families who support one another, share resources, and act together on our vision of a just world.

We are looking for at least 2 - 3 more households to join our group.  Each of the member households will occupy individual apartments and will share the ownership and management of the property.  There is a lot of work involved in starting a new cooperative.  All members are expected to actively participate in the development and operation of the cooperative.

Initial share prices are projected to be between $20,000 and $30,000.  We are working to keep monthly costs between $1,000 and $1,400 per apartment.

Bluestem is structured as a limited-equity cooperative in an effort to maintain permanently affordable housing for future residents.  The value of each share can increase over time, but this equity increase is restricted by the by-laws.

To learn more about Bluestem, please contact Jennie at jellynn@yahoo.com or 773-879-5584.

UPDATE: Our unit has been filled. Feel free to contact us if you’d like to be added to our waiting list.

Our cooperative will have a 1 bedroom unit available in the coming months. Find out more.

Come spend a lazy late summer afternoon with all your friends and friends of friends at the Logan Square Cooperative’s annual Open House. See what’s growing in our garden, have a snack, talk about cooperatives, see a hallway art show art show, and we’ll all enjoy each other’s company!

Saturday September 13, 2008

4 - 7 PM

3934-3946 W. George St. Chicago 60618

Please click on our invite to RSVP.

This morning Julie Peterson and I met at the Heartland Cafe in Rogers Park to bring this new incarntion of ChicagoCoop.net into existance.  Julie had a huge salad and I had an excellent omlette.  Anyway, enough about us, what about this site?  We have some plans for next steps and would love for you to be a part of them.  Here’s what we’re thinking:

• We need to invite organizers of Chicago co-ops to contribute (setting up logins for each one).
• We need to craft an email with basic instructions for interested folks.
• We need to have a face to face event where we can walk people through what we’ve done so far and get them started as contributors (administrators, actually).
• We need an image to replace that green monster up there.
• We need to either set up a new email list or resurrect the previous Chicago co-op email list.  Until we have the formal list, we’ll just send an email to the people we know are interested and everyone to reply-all so we’ll have an informal list for the time being.
• After all that, we’ll need to promote the site.

This is the latest incarnation of the Chicago Co-op dot Net website, a resource for housing cooperatives in and near Chicago.  Please let us know if you’d like to participate!  All are welcome.