Co-op City Democracy and the Privatization Controversy
1 : George Washington University
There are only 160,000 limited-equity cooperative units in the entire United States (UHAB 2016), and this alternative form of residential community is concentrated in New York City. Co-op City, the largest housing cooperative in the country with some 50,000 inhabitants, has a uniquely vibrant civil society and self-government. This paper shows how the relatively dense "social capital' of this alternative community contributes to lively democratic practices and in turn, staved off repeated efforts to privatize the housing complex.
| Subject : | : | IIPPE Paper |
| Language of text | : | English |
| Topics | : | IIPPE Working Group - Social Capital |
| Keywords | : | Housing Cooperatives ; participatory democracy ; social capital ; privatization ; New York |
| PDF version | : |  PDF version |
