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Cheaper rent, group dinners, dozens of roommates: What’s a co-op and how could it help with affordable housing in Colorado?

Establishment of legal housing cooperatives in Boulder was result of decades-long activism

Nick Sergay, who no longer lives in the house, left, joins his former roommates and friends for dinner while visiting from out of town at the Chrysalis Cooperative on April 18, 2023, in Boulder. Seated are Robin Amoruso, Nate Nickrent and Charlie Huntington, right. The Chrysalis Cooperative housing co-op has a dozen housemates that share the house near the Pearl Street Mall. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
Nick Sergay, who no longer lives in the house, left, joins his former roommates and friends for dinner while visiting from out of town at the Chrysalis Cooperative on April 18, 2023, in Boulder. Seated are Robin Amoruso, Nate Nickrent and Charlie Huntington, right. The Chrysalis Cooperative housing co-op has a dozen housemates that share the house near the Pearl Street Mall. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
Elizabeth Hernandez in Denver on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)
By | ehernandez@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
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The establishment of legal housing cooperatives in Boulder was the result of decades-long activism beginning in the late 1990s.
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