Fighting Forward with Cooperative Power in the Bronx

Indypendent, October 2019

Creating a viable alternative is what BCDI calls “fighting forward.” “We are not going to directly develop housing,” says MIT CoLab learning manager Nick Shatan, but BCDI wants to work with “mission-aligned developers” and community groups willing to construct “really deeply affordable” housing for people with lower incomes. That will require planning outside the real-estate profit model, says Nuñez. Read more