MACHA - Madison Area Cooperative Housing Alliance

12/12/2025

We love to see housing co-ops brought up as a solution to affordable housing!

As strange as it may sound, Zohran Mamdani’s new policy on halal cart licenses would lay the groundwork to democratize ownership through cooperatives — an approach that could finally help make New York City affordable again.

10/22/2025

Activists in Puerto Rico are exploring housing cooperatives and land trusts as options to provide long-term, affordable housing to the community.

Bad Bunny’s recent 31-concert residency in Puerto Rico highlighted the archipelago’s housing and displacement crisis. But what’s the solution? A community ownership approach could make housing more affordable and accessible to locals.

10/16/2025

Cool to see how housing co-ops are growing and thriving in Toronto!

Co-op housing is making a comeback. For all the potential friction of sharing a mortgage with your neighbours, it can be a beautiful thing. Jan Champagne and...

07/27/2025

Tonight, Sunday July 27th.

06/10/2025

Join MACHA for our annual summer social event! Hypatia Co-op (411 N Pinckney St) Thursday July 24th, 6-10pm.

Communing, connecting, and conversing with the cooperative housing community.

Food and non-alcoholic beverages donated by Ian’s Pizza and W***y Street Co-op. Alcoholic beverages are BYO or bring to share.

All welcome - Family friendly

06/06/2025

04/23/2025

A chance to interact with Madison's four cohousing communities, including one or two forming groups!

03/17/2025

Milwaukee friends! This Thursday, a group of cooperators are meeting.

Welcome to Milwaukee Intentional Communities & Housing Cooperatives! This group is for individuals interested in housing cooperatives, cohousing, and other forms of intentional community in the Milwaukee area. Whether you're looking to start a new community, join an existing one, or simply learn more about intentional communities, this Meetup is for you!

Welcome to Milwaukee Intentional Communities & Housing Cooperatives! This group is for individuals interested in housing cooperatives, cohousing, and other forms of intentional community in the Milwaukee area. Whether you're looking to start a new community, join an existing one, or simply learn mor

01/29/2025

Save the date and join your fellow Summiteers at Summit on Saturday, June 28th to celebrate our 55th year as a co-op!

Our plans to reunite and celebrate Summit's 50th anniversary in 2020 were waylaid, but now it's 2025 and we have another fun number to celebrate! If you didn't receive an email, please message us on Facebook or email [email protected] so we can add your email to future messages.

The current plans are:
- Party to start at 1pm and go into the night
- Food will be available to grill throughout the day; additional food will also be available
- Family friendly
- More details to follow!

Please let us know if you have any questions and feel free to spread the word to other Summiteers!
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Photo from our holiday tree decorating night in December 2024!

12/12/2024

If you want to get involved in supporting cooperative housing in Madison, our leadership group is meeting on zoom tonight at 7:30pm. We will be planning a winter co-op mixer event and more. Feel free to join us!

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