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Orville Development Forum exists to support the development of sustainable models for community both within and between the conventional frameworks available in today's urban environments.

RESOURCE LINKS
-- ORGANIZATION(S)

• Life Center Association is a West Philadelphia Mutual Housing Association co-operative operating 7 homes for about 40 members.

  PolicyLink and Transformation Documents, financial sketches

• Temescal Creek 'Retrofit' Co-housing

• PolicyLink.org provides resources and policy recommendations in support of various cooperative housing models; I find their section on Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives (LEHC's) very useful.

• Artspace Projects, Inc. operates in Philadelphia.

• Art & Business Council of Greater Philadelphia

• Co-op Housing

• Rudolf Steiner Foundation, an institution for community development financing.

• National Co-op Bank (NCB) a federally-enacted co-op development institution.

-- REAL ESTATE LEGAL INSTRUMENTS/GUIDES, PLUS DATA/RESEARCH TOOLS

• Hallwatch.org is an amazing site that provides free access to many City of Philadelphia public government data, including property address/owner lookups.

• Tenants-in-Common (TIC)

  A resource for making clear cooperative purchases on a sub-co-op scale.

• Issues in Real Estate Price Indexing by Region.

  Potentially useful in research for developing a formula for resale price-capping in split-deed or LEHC agreements.

• Academic review of Real Estate Price Indexing Methods

  Potentially useful in research for developing a formula for resale price-capping in split-deed or LEHC agreements.

-- DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE

• architecture and hygiene

-- ENERGY, GREEN BUILDINGS AND GREEN BUILDING COMPONENTS

• Shipping-container Houses, an idea I've loved for years, are coming of age.

• Energy Co-op, a renewable energy retailer.

• Logan Energy 'solar lease'

• Renewable Energy reseller.

• Materials Exchange, Green Building Resources

-- GENTRIFICATION AND NEIGHBORHOOD DEMOGRAPHICS THEORY AND RESOURCES

• Studies of segregation in specific places is a list of academic studies.