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Introduction

The Radical Routes Toolkit is a wiki containing guidance on how to set up and maintain housing co-operatives in the UK. It was created by Radical Routes, a UK-wide network of co-operatives for radical social change.

Radical Routes has another wiki, with information on how the working groups within the organisation operate, if you're looking for that it is at wiki.radicalroutes.org.uk.

Contents

• What are Housing Co-ops?
  • Housing Co-ops, what and why
  • Different types of housing co-op
  • Being a tenant/landlord
  • Secondary rules

• Early Set Up of a Co-op
  • Legally registering as a co-op
  • Early finances, bank account, tax relief
  • House maintenance and renovation

• People
  • Early recruitment and decisions
  • Conflict between members
  • Breaking down hierarchies
  • Disability and accessibility

• Finance
  • Affording a house
  • 40-year RR modelling spreadsheet
  • Loan stock
  • The buying process
  • Insurance
  • Audit
  • Applying for a RR loan