The project was developed by subsequent cohorts of MS DUE, Parsons students for a four-year-long studio in collaboration with Beyond Care, a child care service in Brooklyn.
This project aimed to explore through research, planning, and design, ways to create new housing cooperative models for Beyond Care members in Sunset Park.
COHAB is one of the four proposals for such cooperative strategies. The research involved participatory mapping, building data analysis, participant surveys, and economic analysis to propose a housing model.
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COHAB is a model based on initiating a mission-driven coalition for truly affordable housing through a process of shared ownership and alternative leasing policies to enable homeownership by low-income communities in any neighborhood.
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Sunset Park Cooperative Project was exhibited in “Inscriptions in relation: from colonial traces to plural expressions”, curated by Ruedi and Vera Baur from Civic City. The exhibition took place in February at France’s National Museum of the History of Immigration.
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We collaborated with Housing Development Finance Lab at The New School to develop rough proformas for a different set of programs. We found that by accomodating 6 families in an 8 unit multifamily house, a 30 year mortgage period would be the most efficient affordable housing for members of Beyond Care.
The research report is currently being used by Housing Justice Lab at the new school to promote cooperative ownership of unoccupied multifamily units in sunset park for immigrant families.