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This website provides information and support for people living and wanting to live in co-operative communities and other intentional communities in Australia.
These include ecovillages, cohousing communities, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives, alternative communities and other situations where people live together with a common vision.
Here you will find resources for starting a community, finding a community home, living in community, and creating more community in your life.
Strata bodies to have say in tenancy
Provisions which give the strata or community corporation of a property the right to apply for termination of a tenancy are proposed in a discussion paper in South Australia.
The South Australian Office of Consumer and Business Services has issued the discussion paper on proposed reforms to the Residential Tenancies Act 1995.
It outlines 68 proposed reforms to South Australia’s tenancy legislation, and is broken up into 13 topics.
Landsharing tour
A tour of six rural landsharing co-operatives in northern NSW will be held during the Easter holidays.
Organised by members of the Goolawah co-op at Crescent Head, the tour will start at Goolawah on April 8, range as far as the Co-ordination Co-operative at Tuntable Falls, near Nimbin, and finish on April 21.
Participants will see how people live together by sharing land, according to Goolawah members Karen and Paul.
They will “learn more about the process of making decisions, building infrastructure and appeasing local councils while doing something different”.
Open forum on Homeland
The NSW Attorney General has arranged for an open forum meeting about the Homeland Trust to take place from 9am to 11am on Friday, May 25, at the Bellingen Courthouse.
The purpose of the open forum meeting is to allow people to give their views about the future of the Homeland Trust and to put forward any alternative proposals for the management of the trust they wish to have considered.
It will be open to interested members of the public as well as people currently residing at Homeland who are not members of Homeland Community Ltd.
With inquiries, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or phone 0428 293 464.
Agency looks to co-operatives
A discussion paper produced by the NSW Government's Fair Trading office has canvassed the possibility of co-operative ownership of manufactured home parks.
Produced for a review of the NSW Residential Parks Act, the agency suggested that co-operatively ownership was "one model that can achieve security of tenure" for park residents.
"This would give residents joint control over the management and future of the park," the agency stated.