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General Issues
Housing
Identity & Diversity
Immigration & Migration
Specific Topics
Right to Adequate Housing
Resilience Planning & Design
Ethnic/Racial Equality & Equity
Location
Lewiston
Maine
United States
Links
Voices from the Field: Immigrants, Collaboration, and Co-ops Revive a Maine Town
Official Website
Start Date
Ongoing
Yes

CASE

Raise-Op: Creating Affordable, Inclusive, and Democratic Homes in Lewiston, ME

October 31, 2019 Scott Fletcher Bowlsby
October 21, 2019 Scott Fletcher Bowlsby
General Issues
Housing
Identity & Diversity
Immigration & Migration
Specific Topics
Right to Adequate Housing
Resilience Planning & Design
Ethnic/Racial Equality & Equity
Location
Lewiston
Maine
United States
Links
Voices from the Field: Immigrants, Collaboration, and Co-ops Revive a Maine Town
Official Website
Start Date
Ongoing
Yes

Led by young, white college graduates, Lewiston’s first housing co-op sought greater representation in its leadership to reach communities in need of housing. Raise-Op was founded to reflect the diversity of the neighbourhood and to support the civic engagement of its members.


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