Affordable, convenient, community housing cooperatives for students. Non-profit and democratically run by our members.
Austin, Texas
Joined July 2012
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Co-op baseball is back July 16-17!
⚾ Sat 7/16 at 11am - Taos Corndogs vs The Austin Drag at Southeast Metropolitan Park
⚾ Sun 7/17 at 11am - Triple header between Taos, Pearl, and 21st St. alums at the Longtime in east Austin.
Come out and cheer on your house!
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It's #AmplifyAustin Day and we're raising money to give direct rent relief to co-op members who need it! Help build a safety net for co-opers by donating any amount today! bit.ly/amplifycoops
Good news: Austin has moved down to Stage 3 of COVID-19 risk. Current members, please review our internal risk assessment chart to see what this means for your house: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Austin has moved to Stage 4 of COVID guidelines. Our members should now follow Stage 4 precautions on our Risk Assessment Chart (collegehouses.org/covid-19).
Keep stopping the spread so that we can keep moving down to lower stages!
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College Houses is hiring an Administrative Coordinator! This position is responsible for reception, member services, information management, and administrative systems for the co-op. Please share widely!
collegehouses.org/employment…
Being a co-op member is a learning experience... What's something you learned at a co-op that you use in your work or personal life?
A core goal of co-ops is to bring democracy into everyday life to create a more equitable world. As we all process yesterday's events, we hope you find room for continued hope in democracy—not just that it will be preserved, but that it will be strengthened and expanded.
Congrats to our Executive Director, Kim Garmany, on her induction into the NASCO Cooperative Hall of Fame!
An interesting read with a co-op connection... may your day be filled with samfundssind! #coops
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Taos Co-op was featured in this Texas Public Radio article about COVID-19 around UT. Thanks to our members who are working hard to keep their houses safe!
tpr.org/education/2020-09-30…
From the Chortle Portal at Taos to the SNL stage! Great to see a friend of the co-ops finding success. Congrats @andrew_vinny!
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Students and staff have put a lot of work into creating our COVID-19 guidelines, and we're happy to have that work recognized! However, we've already seen places suffer spikes in cases despite excellent precautions. We hope this encourages our members become even more vigilant!
In the middle of an Austin neighborhood designated early on as a coronavirus hotspot, one co-op house has successfully turned itself into a bubble. bit.ly/31WrDkJ
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College Houses has received $20,000 from the Austin Non-Profit Relief Grant! This grant will help us cover COVID-19 sanitization costs and other operating expenses. Thank you @austintexasgov and @centraltexasbbb for making these much-needed funds available!
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It’s move-in day, and a new year means a new T-shirt! (Can you tell we’re feeling some 90s nostalgia?)
We can’t wait to get these to our new members, as well as to some of our Resilience Scholarship Fund donors!
#cooperative #atx #housing #90s
The central office is officially closed for the winter break. Thanks to all our members, alums, and community partners for an awesome semester 🎉 #cooplifeaustin instagram.com/p/Brn8KRYFiTQ/…
Prop A passed! That means $250 million for preserving & expanding Austin’s affordable housing #affordablehousing #austin #cooplifeaustin instagram.com/p/Bp5GUNbF309/…
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.@WhiteHouse just released a list of US employers committed to empowering their workers—including Black Star Co-op! whitehouse.gov/the-press-off…