Become a community member owner! đź’«
We envision a world in which housing is a right, not a commodity, and land is returned to the commons to be collectively stewarded for generations to come.
Our mission is to grow the movement for permanently affordable cooperatively owned housing and land for the benefit of our communities.
Aims:
Membership: Supporting transparent democratic governance through effective communication systems for members. Sharing what we learn to inspire others as part of a broader movement.
Land Stewardship: Stewarding the land and relationships to the commons for the benefit of the community, ecosystem, and inhabitants.
Development: Expanding the portfolio of Valley Housing Coop and aligned groups like Community Land Trusts to support self determined safe housing and remove land from the real estate market.
Building Infrastructure: Maintaining and improving existing homes to be more sustainable and provide a better quality of life for residents.
Finance: Managing and planning the co-op’s finances to ensure future stability and fair distribution of wealth. Mobilizing capital to support our mission.
A huge thank you to everyone who came out and helped us celebrate this big win last week! So many people from so many aspects of this journey coming together, lots of energy around the project, so good to be together!
Thank you to all those who spoke, from projects as established as the Valley Community Land Trust, one of the oldest land trusts in the country who holds the land VHC is on, to our newest land preserving entity the Valley Alliance for Land Equity, and more in between. Those speeches were recorded and are available below! In the time since we gathered, we’ve been enjoying reading articles by the Greenfield Reporter and Montague Recorder covering the event.