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Feature: Can a Bunch of Tech Nerds Solve the Housing Crisis?

Rivkah Brown

Roost promises to create one million housing co-ops, but its high rents and willingness to work with landlords have turned off housing activists. Is their scepticism warranted? Rivkah Brown reports.

Report: The Rider-Owned Food Courier Coop Taking on Deliveroo

Alex D King

A group of former Deliveroo riders have set up their own food courier cooperative as an alternative to the exploitative conditions of the gig economy. Alex D King reports.

Report: Tired of Greedy Landlords, Students Are Setting Up Housing Co-ops

Eloise Barry

The past year has seen students nationwide coordinate the largest wave of rent strikes in recent history. But growing numbers are going one step further: breaking away from the private rented sector altogether and setting up housing co-ops. Eloise Barry reports.

Report: The Co-op Network Giving Communities the Tools to Feed Themselves

Sophie K Rosa

Set up last year with the goal of having 'a food co-op on every street in every town', the Cooperation Town network is quickly growing. Sophie K Rosa finds out more.

Novara Docs: Reclaiming Work

Cycle courier cooperatives are turning technology on the gig economy giants.

#Slaveroo, Industrial Action and Cooperativism: What Does the Future of the Digital Platform Economy Hold?

Jim Benfield

Recent strikes by Deliveroo and UberEats workers drive home the threats to rights and conditions behind the growth of the digital platform economy. What does the future hold for these technologies and our relationship to them?

4 Ways Generation Y is Being Taken for a Ride (and 3 Ways it’s Pushing Back)

AltGen

Youth unemployment is sky-rocketing and Cameron is seeking to take away benefits from young people. Against this trend of declining living standards, students in the US are organising debt strikes and in the UK youth-led workers' co-operatives are multiplying.

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