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When cooperative decision-making faces financial pressure and time constraints

We took over management of our apartment building as a tenant cooperative to keep rents affordable, but now we're dealing with a major repair that's going to cost more than we budgeted for and some people want to take out loans while others think we should do the work ourselves even if it takes longer.

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Collective ownership creates shared responsibility for difficult trade-offs that individual renters never have to navigate together.

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