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Community response to COVID-19: The case of rental housing cooperatives in Melbourne, Australia and Choluteca, Honduras
COVID-19 and its restrictions have had widely documented negative impacts for private and social rental sectors, internationally. Limited evidence exists about how the pandemic effects were experienced in alternative forms of renting such as housing cooperatives. Rental cooperatives, recognised for...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9790866/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36591006 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2022.102737 |
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author | Guity-Zapata, Nestor Agustin Stone, Wendy M. Nygaard, Christian |
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description | COVID-19 and its restrictions have had widely documented negative impacts for private and social rental sectors, internationally. Limited evidence exists about how the pandemic effects were experienced in alternative forms of renting such as housing cooperatives. Rental cooperatives, recognised for their principles of democratic control, education and training and concern for community, may offer different outcomes for members than more individually-oriented rental forms. This paper seeks to explore whether and how COVID-19 was responded to within cooperative rental housing models, and if the pandemic posed a challenge to cooperative principles. Using a social practices approach, the analysis first identifies cooperative members' formal and informal responses to COVID-19, and second explores the meaning of such activities in the pandemic context in Australia and Honduras cooperatives. The continuity of usual housing cooperative practices and pandemic measures were analysed via in-depth interviews with 15 residents. Findings indicate that cooperative responses acted to reduce negative impacts of the pandemic or to find effective solutions. Rental housing cooperative residents’ lived experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, invite us to reflect on the role of housing cooperatives in the housing sector, the importance of collaborative housing models and the relevance of housing-based community resilience. |
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spelling | pubmed-97908662022-12-27 Community response to COVID-19: The case of rental housing cooperatives in Melbourne, Australia and Choluteca, Honduras Guity-Zapata, Nestor Agustin Stone, Wendy M. Nygaard, Christian Habitat Int Article COVID-19 and its restrictions have had widely documented negative impacts for private and social rental sectors, internationally. Limited evidence exists about how the pandemic effects were experienced in alternative forms of renting such as housing cooperatives. Rental cooperatives, recognised for their principles of democratic control, education and training and concern for community, may offer different outcomes for members than more individually-oriented rental forms. This paper seeks to explore whether and how COVID-19 was responded to within cooperative rental housing models, and if the pandemic posed a challenge to cooperative principles. Using a social practices approach, the analysis first identifies cooperative members' formal and informal responses to COVID-19, and second explores the meaning of such activities in the pandemic context in Australia and Honduras cooperatives. The continuity of usual housing cooperative practices and pandemic measures were analysed via in-depth interviews with 15 residents. Findings indicate that cooperative responses acted to reduce negative impacts of the pandemic or to find effective solutions. Rental housing cooperative residents’ lived experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, invite us to reflect on the role of housing cooperatives in the housing sector, the importance of collaborative housing models and the relevance of housing-based community resilience. Elsevier Ltd. 2023-01 2022-12-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9790866/ /pubmed/36591006 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2022.102737 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Guity-Zapata, Nestor Agustin Stone, Wendy M. Nygaard, Christian Community response to COVID-19: The case of rental housing cooperatives in Melbourne, Australia and Choluteca, Honduras |
title | Community response to COVID-19: The case of rental housing cooperatives in Melbourne, Australia and Choluteca, Honduras |
title_full | Community response to COVID-19: The case of rental housing cooperatives in Melbourne, Australia and Choluteca, Honduras |
title_fullStr | Community response to COVID-19: The case of rental housing cooperatives in Melbourne, Australia and Choluteca, Honduras |
title_full_unstemmed | Community response to COVID-19: The case of rental housing cooperatives in Melbourne, Australia and Choluteca, Honduras |
title_short | Community response to COVID-19: The case of rental housing cooperatives in Melbourne, Australia and Choluteca, Honduras |
title_sort | community response to covid-19: the case of rental housing cooperatives in melbourne, australia and choluteca, honduras |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9790866/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36591006 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2022.102737 |
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