Sometimes distribution co-ops band together to form wholesale generation and transmission co-ops (G&Ts); G&Ts generate power and sell it to their member co-ops.
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As for co-ops, the median for one-bedroom co-ops rose 3.6 percent, to $487,43 from $470,160.
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CO-OPS It was arguably a stronger year for co-ops, which make up the city's older housing stock.
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While some co-ops are just as expensive as buying a house, affordable options exist and are typically referred to as limited-equity co-ops.
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Asked if any of the remaining co-ops would fail this year, Mr. Slavitt did not answer directly, but he said the co-ops had "every opportunity to be successful" in 2016.
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In the new tax law, Republican lawmakers authored a last-minute provision that gave farming co-ops "pass-through" treatment, incentivizing farmers to buy from co-ops rather than larger agricultural companies.
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Though it would be easy to view CO-OPs' present and future circumstances with skepticism, the six CO-OPs operating in eight states actually have reason to be more confident now than ever.
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CROPS FLOW TO CO-OPS The provision was introduced to compensate co-ops and their farmer owners when Congress eliminated a part of the tax code that had benefited them for more than a decade.
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And many of the remaining co-ops continue to lose money.
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But interns, co-ops and other temporary employees are not eligible.
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Hippie co-ops and intentional communities are dotted across the area.
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I've learned that many co-ops started with a study group.
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All but a few of the co-ops ended up failing.
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The two co-ops sought a stay in the cases themselves.
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In the U.S., employee co-ops like Etsy have also underperformed.
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But he said he saw the selling point of co-ops.
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If a defunding occurs, risk corridors, bailouts, Co-ops, subsidies, healthcare.
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But it also brings unions and co-ops into the mix.
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Of the Manhattan condo and co-ops that sold through Jan.
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Consumers witnessed 17 of the 85033 original Obamacare co-ops close.
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Out of $2.4 billion in "loans" by the federal government to the 23 original co-ops, $1.7 billion has been lost with few expectations that any of the co-ops will survive for the long haul.
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There were co-ops for sharecroppers seeking better markets for their produce, co-ops for townspeople who wanted better prices for basic commodities, and cooperative communes that tried to create a new world apart from white supremacy.
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The vast, vast majority of video game companies are not co-ops.
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Rock clubs aren't Wolf Eyes' thing -- courtyards of student co-ops are.
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Sales of three-bedroom condos and co-ops were rare, he said.
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On March 23, the 48 condos and co-ops listed on StreetEasy.
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Black activists during that period visited co-ops in Africa and Israel.
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"Co-ops can address almost every economic challenge we have," Nembhard said.
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Reed: It does sound suspiciously like the reasoning behind the co-ops.
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But many of the co-ops, which have struggled financially, have foreclosed.
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A bulwark of high-rise condominiums and co-ops faces the ocean.
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But the most luxurious co-ops aren't the only ones being hurt.
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Before Connecticut, just 10 of the original 23 co-ops remained functioning.
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Lots of smaller utilities, municipals, and co-ops are getting into this.
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Rural electric co-ops in Iowa, Illinois, and other Midwestern states have gotten into solar power, but the news out of Wisconsin this week might be the biggest sign yet that co-ops are turning over a new leaf.
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The sale of shares in co-ops is not regulated by the SEC.
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More than 100 electric co-ops are deploying broadband in their service territories.
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Local bigshots hastily formed co-ops to get their hands on the money.
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Co-ops cannot list on stockmarkets, since they are owned by their workers.
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These sort of informal co-ops are nothing new to the black community.
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Co-ops can be found in the low-slung Grymes Hill Manor Estates.
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Park Avenue, lined with co-ops, has beautifully planted green spaces called malls.
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There were 55 co-ops and 22 condos on the market on Oct.
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But many of those co-ops, which have struggled financially, are in foreclosure.
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"Co-ops can have creaky elevators, leaky roofs and no amenities," he said.
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West, toward the Van Wyck Expressway, the garden apartments are frequently co-ops.
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Rural co-ops rightly fear anything that will raise costs for their members.
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He also threw in two co-ops in a deal totaling $221 million.
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Twenty-three CO-OPs were created after the ACA was signed into law.
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Rentals are scarce, agents say, and co-ops typically fetch $218 million plus.
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Consider Vanderbilt Management, which manages 22 co-ops and condos in the city.
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Online, they were surprised to find inexpensive co-ops available in the Bronx.
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Co-ops also leverage public-private partnerships to enhance the quality of life.
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Even if co-ops and condominiums have sufficient reserves, getting the residents on the solar bandwagon is often difficult, said McGowan Southworth, 41, a founder of Zero Carbon Corporation, a green energy consultancy that has helped co-ops go solar.
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However, the wording of the new provision wrongly assumes that all farmers deliver their grain to co-ops, said Bob Zelenka, executive director of the Minnesota Grain and Feed Association, a trade group that represents co-ops and private companies.
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Now I see nothing but the frameworks of large hotels and luxury co-ops.
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As it stands, the rule "would create a proliferation of co-ops," she said.
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"So co-ops may be similar to the decentralized computing context," said Van Valkenburgh.
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Co-ops, generally east of Sunset Park, also exist, most of them walk-ups.
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Today there are nearly 900 rural co-ops still providing their communities with electricity.
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Co-ops ranged from $39,000 to $509,000, and condos from $4783,000 to $1.65 million.
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In the 22001s the co-ops divided up their land among around 22013,22013 beneficiaries.
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The House Oversight Committee holds a hearing on ObamaCare co-ops at 1 p.m.
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Co-ops are generally cheaper than condos, but they usually have strict financial requirements.
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In co-ops, installation and maintenance is initially the responsibility of the co-op.
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There were just 14 sales through August, including one condo but no co-ops.
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Billions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted on ObamaCare's 17 other failed CO-OPs.
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That is considerably less than the monthly fees for most condos or co-ops.
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What's more, many co-ops are locked into long-term PPAs with coal plants.
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A: Many co-ops permit owners to have guests for up to 30 days.
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These were rentals because the prior co-ops had failed in the late 1800s.
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"The market for those large co-ops west of Third has softened," he said.
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Some prewar co-ops are selling at discounts of as much as 214 percent.
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Worker co-ops wound up in the hands of incompetent and corrupt political cronies.
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Many co-ops require shareholders to cover 80 percent of their floors with carpets.
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The co-ops are my jam, but tend to have some weirdness attached to them.
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Three-bedroom condos can be hard to find, she added, and co-ops are few.
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Can co-ops dictate what employees do in their private time and whom shareholders hire?
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The problem: The insurance co-ops created by the law have mostly gone belly-up.
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As for the other co-ops, Slavitt defended regulators' decisions given the information they had.
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Other CO-OPs made strategic business decisions to focus on non-ACA business when healthcare.
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Altogether, more than 12 percent of the nation's power meters are in rural co-ops.
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Rural co-ops, being smaller and less capitalized, find this situation more of a challenge.
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Individuals subletting apartments in condos and co-ops wouldn't subscribe to such services at all.
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The numbers reflect closed sales of single-family homes, town homes, condominiums and co-ops.
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Co-ops ranged from $142,000 to $359,000; two-family houses from $39,000 to $1.79 million.
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Ms. Marvin noted that 40 percent of residents live in co-ops, condos or apartments.
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Ask Real Estate Like banks, co-ops set rules about how much shareholders can borrow.
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Last year, 2000,015 sales were recorded for co-ops in the city, according to StreetEasy.
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We need worker co-ops, which build skills and represent labor at the negotiating table.
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Two years ago, she ventured into the housing market, visiting several co-ops for sale.
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Consolidation has been under way for decades: since 1999 the number of co-ops has fallen by half; on August 1st their two remaining "central" banks, DZ Bank and WGZ Bank, which provide co-ops with wholesale and investment-banking services, are to join forces.
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His government this month approved funds for some 500 ex-guerrillas to set up co-ops.
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These co-ops tend to be religious, where you're mocked if you don't follow biblical practices.
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They formed electric co-ops and strung their own damn wires, aided by cheap federal loans.
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It established new, non-profit health care co-ops, designed to bolster competition through lower premiums.
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In a presidential election, the secret ballot is sacred, but condos and co-ops operate differently.
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Republicans have attacked the administration for what they call management failures in overseeing the co-ops.
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CO-OPs are keeping prices in check, to the benefit consumers and the federal government alike.
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At the Clinton Hill Co-ops, they were astounded by how far their money would go.
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Back in the 80s and 90s, housing co-ops in London were a lot more common.
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CO-OPs claim the methodology is flawed and biased in favor of larger, more established insurers.
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Co-ops continue to break the traditional mold for how successful businesses are organized and function.
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Typically, they decorate clients' second homes in the Hamptons, and apartments in co-ops with doormen.
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If you want a lesson humility from better-rated organization ... I've worked in co-ops. Right?
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A: Most co-ops have the authority to evict shareholders for objectionable conduct, like excessive noise.
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Maryland's program is one of about 85033 surviving co-ops created under the 2010 healthcare law.
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Quotas can also be allocated to community trusts and co-ops to protect small-scale fishers.
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But multifamily housing is still a rarity in Scarsdale, be it rentals, co-ops or condos.
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The median price for condos was $390,000, compared with $427,596; for co-ops, $188,500, versus $210,2534.
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Of the 22018 nonprofit insurance co-ops set up by the Affordable Care Act to compete in such areas, only a handful remain — probably at least in part because the co-ops received from Congress only $503 billion of the $250 billion originally appropriated to establish them.
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That means federal, state and local grants to co-ops now count toward that 15-percent threshold.
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Many co-ops provide shareholders with lists of "courtesy repairs," or repairs paid for by the building.
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Those include feed supply stores, co-ops, hatcheries and friends, according to the outbreak summary issued Thursday.
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Several of the other remaining co-ops, at least, are believed to be on shaky financial ground.
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Co-ops sold at an average of $365,000 in 2015, compared with $623,000 in 2013, StreetEasy said.
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The federal government is still working to recoup $1.2 billion in unpaid loans to the co-ops.
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Here's what she had to say about co-ops and the fight for racial justice in America.
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VICE: Everyone kind of understands what co-ops are, but can you give me a hard definition?
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And most of the new insurance co-ops, which were founded to create more competition, have failed.
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The successful companies have also avoided the very low prices found in some of the co-ops.
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The median sales price for co-ops of various sizes was $903,000, up 25 percent from 2015.
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For co-ops, his research showed the median price increased 32.2 percent over two years, to $299,500.
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"Changing roof use spawns a disproportionate amount of litigation in co-ops and condos," Mr. Shmulewitz said.
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Put simply, there's a lot for both Democrats and Republicans to like about health insurance CO-OPs.
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While CO-OPs are required to sell plans on the marketplaces, all have significant other insurance business.
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One- and two-bedroom co-ops on the market earlier this month ranged from $49,900 to $2478,245.
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A: Co-ops can change their rules, enacting new ones that affect both new and longstanding residents.
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Prices start in the $200,000s for co-ops and condos, and in the low $300,903s for houses.
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Then Ms. Lewis learned that some H.D.F.C. co-ops required a down payment of just 5 percent.
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Some colleges have student-run housing co-ops where cleaning, food preparation and other responsibilities are shared.
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But she was deterred by the fact that co-ops composed much of the city's housing stock.
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A reverse mortgage is not an option because banks typically do not offer them in co-ops.
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Pulling up StreetEasy on her phone, she searched for West Village co-ops for less than $600,000.
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Lenders, condos and co-ops ask for financial information like tax returns, pay stubs and bank statements.
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"We were concerned they might make it into co-ops or go market rate," Ms. Smith said.
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To remain competitive, companies including ethanol producer Green Plains Inc have taken steps to establish co-ops.
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To cover the cost, some co-ops have opted to apply for grants or one-time subsidies.
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The bill ensures that co-ops do not jeopardize their tax-exempt status when they accept government grants.
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The co-ops were created with federal money under the Affordable Care Act, which was adopted in 2010.
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Non-profit co-ops, the watered-down competition option that made it into the ACA, have routinely collapsed.
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My personal queer female community is very similar, with women living in co-ops and in punk bands.
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So how do you find people who already have that feeling and get them to do co-ops?
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Enjoyed playing golf today with friends from Electric Co-ops of SC. They provide invaluable service to us.
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"People around here haven't spent a lot of time around co-ops in the city," Mr. Coonrod said.
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While co-ops, many in the Deco style, pop up for sale across the Bronx, condos are rarer.
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For co-ops, the median was $782,000 through October, compared with $727,212 in 2015 and $599,000 in 2011.
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Hundreds of billions devoted to risk corridors and failed Co-ops (2628 of 28500 are insolvent or bankrupt).
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The co-ops are typically customer-owned and run like regular businesses, with annual dividends returned to members.
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For condos, the median was $608,500, up from $395,000; for co-ops, it was $184,000, down from $216,750.
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Among brand names, I would again suggest Jadot and Drouhin along with the Lugny and Viré co-ops.
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Co-ops are at 303 and 575 Main, converted Mitchell-Lama buildings, and No. 531, the large Rivercross.
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She shops in food co-ops, farmers' markets and old-school grocery stores that sell products in bulk.
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The co-ops divvy up the country so that each one is responsible for a few thousand patients.
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A map I saw of the co-ops' territory looks like overlapping spiderwebs spread out over the country.
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The CO-OPs that haven't closed their doors have joined other insurers to hike their premiums this year.
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Dean Roberts, a Manhattan real estate lawyer who specializes in low-income co-ops, argues that they can.
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However, most co-ops do require the board to approve the transfer to a financially responsible family member.
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He also said certain co-ops and condominiums in parts of the Bronx would see lower tax bills.
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The bonuses have been paid, deposited and turned into Park Avenue co-ops or homes in the Hamptons.
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Co-ops are generally west of Broadway, as are Inwood Hill Park and the 20-acre Isham Park.
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For condominiums and co-ops, the median price was $350,000, down 274 percent from the previous 29.75 months.
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Some farmers around the world have put together co-ops, and took government grants to build better systems.
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Co-ops do have other means at their disposal, including lines of credit, underlying mortgages or levying special assessments.
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In total, co-ops account for roughly 2% of British GDP compared with about 7% in Italy and Germany.
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Dean, which doesn't directly own dairy farms, sources its raw materials primarily from dairy co-ops and independent farmers.
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The Obama administration has said that like any start-up, it is natural that some co-ops would fail.
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About 300,000 of those are rentals with some amount of turnover; the company also tracks condominiums and co-ops.
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Jared Polis (D-Colo.) on Monday asked about expanding the measure to include other insurers besides just co-ops.
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And the other bill would open up existing federal communications facilities for us by telecom companies or co-ops.
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The co-ops didn't exist; the assemblies, when they actually happened, were small and populated mostly by true believers.
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Co-ops and assemblies took a backseat to balancing the budget, at least as far as official business went.
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This is partly why investors tend to favor condos over co-ops when buying property solely as an investment.
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The average list price on July 25 for condos was $47,435 and for co-ops, $307,686, Ms. Levine said.
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To gather the data, PropertyShark looked at the sales of family homes, condos, and co-ops in each neighborhood.
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All the co-ops were listed for under $400,000, Mr. Valhouli said, while condos were asking $725,000 to $825,000.
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Rural co-ops have been around for a long time, and they've always done things basically the same way.
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In early January, 25 condos and co-ops were listed at an average of $2.59 million, according to StreetEasy.
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A: City rules require residential building owners, including rentals, co-ops and condos, to heat their buildings from Oct.
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On the Market This week's properties include a condo in Brooklyn and co-ops in the Bronx and Manhattan.
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Many still exist and, today, co-ops and other publicly owned utilities, including the TVA, serve 20203 million Americans.
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From Central Park in 2010, you could see stately luxury hotels, condos, and co-ops lining Central Park South.
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Efforts to adjust the provision have some co-ops pushing back out of concerns farmers could lose tax benefits.
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They will each have two options: Community Health Options (one of the remaining Obamacare co-ops) and Harvard Pilgrim.
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But six-story co-ops like those between Beach 120th and Beach 125th Streets offer starter apartments for much less.
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While the neighborhood offers attached houses and stand-alone homes, its prewar co-ops tend to offer the best deals.
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Ekoplaza's other main different from co-ops, farmers markets, and small no-waste stores is that it's a grocery chain.
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Daniele's background is in social sciences and co-ops, and he ending up becoming interested in rural development and agronomics.
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Just seven of the original 23 co-ops remain in business, with the rest having failed due to financial problems.
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WHAT WE'RE READING The seven remaining ObamaCare "co-ops" are going into survival mode in the fourth open enrollment period.
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Granted, the past decade has seen action, besides the steady stream of unions among neighbouring savings banks and co-ops.
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Only eight of the original 85033 CO-OPs remain after Oregon's Health CO-OP announced it was shuttering last week.
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Its ailments continue to mount: failing state exchanges, collapsing co-ops, higher premiums, higher deductibles, narrow networks, and fewer choices.
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Before this week, just 10 of the original 23 co-ops remained functioning, and Republicans have seized on the problems.
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Housing options range from modest co-ops in prewar buildings to Tudor mansions in the upscale Forest Hills Gardens section.
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Just seven of the original 28500 co-ops remain in business, with the rest having failed due to financial problems.
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"In my experience, co-ops are very strict," said Kathy Dispenza, an agent at Better Homes and Gardens Rand Realty.
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Cooperation Jackson primarily hosts job training and skills sharing sessions, and helps workers start and finance their own co-ops.
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What seems to be one of the biggest collections of co-ops outside New York City crams this area, too.
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For that one, I turned to state decency laws and a lawyer who represents residents of co-ops and condos.
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On May 12, 71 co-ops and condos were for sale in Spuyten Duyvil, according to The New York Times.
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You could also contact the co-ops across the street, which might have policies regarding objects placed on window ledges.
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That, along with a number of other changes Congress made to the ACA, has contributed to the CO-OPs' woes.
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Students complete two Co-ops, sometimes three, over the course of their college careers, for six months at a time.
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But some argue that if changes had been made earlier, effective this year, it would have helped the co-ops.
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The average asking price was $1.825 million; for co-ops, the average was $1.122 million, and for condos, $2.532 million.
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When I started applying for co-ops, I got a call from Dryden (now Armstrong)... I learned I really enjoy airplanes.
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Customers to this day include local restaurants, coffee shops and food co-ops who saw her cycle by in that getup.
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Though some co-ops have shown themselves resilient, they are generally thought to be less dynamic—a shortcoming of democratic governance.
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Democrats hoped the co-ops would increase competition in state insurance markets, creating additional choices for consumers and holding down premiums.
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Simple in concept, it connects residents to different programs like including community gardens, food pantries, co-ops, and emergency relief organizations.
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Now, home-school co-ops will be able to verify their status and get access to G Suite for Education, too.
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Parents and teachers who run home-school co-ops will be able to sign up for it in the coming weeks.
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There are also detached single-family homes, condos and co-ops and a small number of free-standing colonials and Tudors.
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Co-ops ranged from a one-bedroom with bridge views for $275,000 to a three-bedroom on Shore Road for $629,000.
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The House Ways and Means Committee advanced a bill aimed at helping enrollees of ObamaCare's nonprofit insurers, known as co-ops.
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CO-OPs have been the incubators to test new ideas that can and will be applied on a much wider basis.
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Yet Lumumba understood his role as an expression of the popular will, which the co-ops and assemblies would someday represent.
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The CO-OPs have been hit the hardest in the premium stabilization programs, with just 85033 of the original 23 remaining.
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In late August, 38 co-ops and condos were for sale at an average list price of $860,000, according to StreetEasy.
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In late September, 12 co-ops and condos were for sale at an average price of $1.16 million, according to StreetEasy.
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The vast bulk of power generated by G&Ts and bought by co-ops (from G&Ts and elsewhere) is coal.
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And smaller co-ops often do not have the capital to own or purchase from a diverse array of power sources.
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For New Yorkers who live in co-ops, gifting their apartments is more complicated than handing over a single-family home.
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Every insurer pays primary care doctors the same flat rate, $2120 an hour, for care at the general practitioner co-ops.
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Co-op apartments generally sell for less than condos, but three co-ops with Central Park views closed above $30 million.
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Most co-ops allow shareholders to circulate petitions, although it's possible yours has a rule prohibiting them, according to Ms. Manevitz.
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A coalition of utilities, co-ops, manufacturers, developers, small businesses and unions has been formed to oppose tariffs on solar products.
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The neighborhood had a rougher image then, and the Co-ops were coming out of financial distress, with apartments going vacant.
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We start with localities and co-ops and agriculture, and then they gradually shame the federal government into doing something about it.
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"These co-ops are one way to be in charge of our means of production," said one of the founders, Shani Akilah.
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Publicly owned utilities can also be financed through tax-free bonds and co-ops for people who can afford to pay in.
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The cleaning co-ops get new clients through the website Up&Go, which operates much like sites such as Handy or MyClean.
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By the 1880s, labor unions were actually helping workers to start their own co-ops, and blacks were involved in that, too.
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Senators on Thursday pressed a top ObamaCare official over a string of failures in non-profit health insurers known as co-ops.
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It praised participatory democracy in Venezuela and hailed co-ops in the Basque country, while calling for the sweeping nationalisation of industry.
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The Obama administration and state regulators had worked to shut down any financially shaky co-ops before 2628 enrollment began on Nov.
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The Obama administration and state regulators had worked to shut down any financially shaky co-ops before 28503 enrollment began on Nov.
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Co-ops include the 1958 Le Havre, which has 1,323 apartments in 32 buildings on 28 acres with tennis and two pools.
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In New York, these managers maneuver through the often stringent moving and trash-disposal rules adopted by co-ops and condominium buildings.
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But people living in condos, co-ops and privately owned rental buildings answer to a higher power: the owner of the building.
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Obamacare remade that market and sought to stimulate competition by financing the start up of about two dozen smaller insurance co-ops.
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Akuno wanted to keep the focus on the co-ops and the assemblies and elections—real counter power, backed by self-sufficiency.
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In contrast, the average home price in Manhattan is $2.12 million, according to Douglas Elliman Real Estate; co-ops average $1.29 million.
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In early August, there were 66 co-ops and condos for sale, at an average price of $33 million, according to StreetEasy.
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Grocers like Whole Foods eventually co-opted the co-ops, reducing what had been a radical idea to a cool retail vibe.
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On July 27, 113 co-ops and condos were listed at an average price of $4.6 million, according to data from StreetEasy.
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Her block had three co-ops when she moved in, including one inhabited by artists, some of them well-known, she said.
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But eventually, people adapted and now 90 percent of the 500 co-ops and condos that the company manages use the platform.
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Mr. Lipping, who led what he calls a "wave election" in late 250, saw himself as a reformer in the Co-ops.
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Lawyers who specialize in co-ops say that the kinds of allegations in the Gardens at Forest Hills lawsuit are extremely troubling.
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HOA and co-op rules might apply Like cities, homeowners associations and co-ops take a different approach to regulating short-term rentals.
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As for co-ops, it is worth asking why they have never taken off as a way of organising companies in any country.
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Google today announced it is changing the eligibility guidelines of its free G Suite for Education service to include home-school co-ops.
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Now, all the milk in Dannon's yogurt will come directly from farms and two co-ops, whose members have agreed to the plan.
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In the first quarter, 112 Riverdale co-ops sold, versus 74 in the first quarter of 6003, according to the real estate board.
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After that and other operational costs, Stocksy last year generated its first "surplus revenue," or what is akin to profit at co-ops.
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Over the past 215 years, the Center has formed 212.50 worker-owned co-ops that have generated more than $240 million in revenue.
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The announcement is only the latest in a string of problems facing the nonprofit insurers set up under ObamaCare, known as co-ops.
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That's why she has been working to create the Southern Reparations Loan Fund, an investment vehicle for the new generation of co-ops.
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As of April 30, there were 273 apartments, mostly co-ops, listed for an average of $4.84 million on StreetEasy (excluding new developments).
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Kirk Henckels, the director of Stribling Private Brokerage, said co-ops were better positioned in 2018, after price adjustments the previous two years.
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Some of the year's most expensive closings were at townhouses, but like condos and co-ops, many of the transactions came with discounts.
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Sales of existing co-ops rose 5 percent, compared to the same period last year, according to a report by the Corcoran Group.
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The company used home values from its online index of single-family homes, co-ops and condos, both on the market and off.
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Among them are clusters of gray two-level, two-family co-ops that date to the early 1990s, despite their 1800s Italianate look.
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Write letters to the boards and the managing agents of those co-ops, expressing your concern for the safety of the general public.
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Similarly, among resold apartments, the median condo discount last year was 8 percent, according to StreetEasy, while co-ops were down 7 percent.
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The earliest of the three co-ops covered by the show, Tanager Gallery, was also the longest-lived, surviving from 21960 to 257.
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"When talking about rural areas, the co-ops already own the poles, so they can put fiber in the electric space," Mitchell said.
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As the Furman Center at New York University has found, dozens of individual co-ops have sold for more than the Department of Finance's estimated market value for the entire building, while the effective tax rate of expensive condos and co-ops is a fraction of that paid by owners of rental properties, which house the majority of New Yorkers.
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A trail of Solo cups and crushed Natty Light beer cans leads to "The Row," a strip of fraternities, themed houses, and co-ops.
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One of the difficulties with H.D.F.C co-ops is that the income caps can leave buyers little room to save for a down payment.
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In Brooklyn, despite rising inventory and falling prices in the luxury segment, co-ops sold for a median $22,29, a new third-quarter record.
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Electric co-ops should be able to focus on enhancing the quality of life in their communities without fear of a federal tax bill.
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The federal government has awarded $2.5 billion in loans to the co-ops, including at least $1.2 billion to those that are shutting down.
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Mr. Slavitt said the administration would try to make it easier for co-ops to raise capital and attract outside investors or merger partners.
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Technology recruiter Tricia Lucas's point-of-view is that internships, co-ops and fellowships are the best CV builders for students and recent graduates.
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Some buildings should be called un-co-ops, as in uncooperative, when it comes to dealing with any kind of change or building project.
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To get a better understanding of how co-ops can address the systemic racism in America today, I called up Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard.
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One of things we learn when we study cooperative economics is the stronger co-ops have members who have a strong sense of camaraderie.
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The average sales price for co-ops hit $1.4 million, up 10 percent over last year, and the median price set a record $850,000.
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An even bigger bonus: The apartment was more spacious than its condo counterparts and about 25 percent cheaper, as co-ops tend to be.
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Louise M. Devlin, an agent with Brown Harris Stevens who does a fair amount of business in 1960s co-ops, swears by this trick.
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REAL ESTATAE A picture caption last Sunday with a cover article about upgrades in co-ops reversed the identifications of the two men shown.
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The electric utility co-ops that supply electricity to much of rural America receive consistently higher customer service ratings than their investor-owned counterparts.
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Consider Section 199A, which created new, federal tax incentives for farmers to sell their crops to co-ops instead of independent grain merchandising companies.
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In the Gramercy Park neighborhood, the average price of co-ops and condos for sale in mid-October was $2245 million, according to StreetEasy.
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In 2017, the average closing price for co-ops there was $212 million, according to StreetEasy; by 294, it had jumped to $278 million.
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The volume of sales and the prices of condos and co-ops fell sharply in the third quarter, in almost every real estate category.
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The absence of the funding has also taken a toll on the 85033 state startup insurance companies, known as co-ops, established under ObamaCare.
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Co-ops aren't new: The nation's longest-running example is The Philadelphia Contributionship, a mutually owned insurance company founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1752.
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Sources say that the CMS did not know that state regulators were going to shut down the co-ops in Oregon, Connecticut or Ohio.
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Politicians blocked efforts to rebuild, mainly because wealthier, and mostly white, owners of nearby co-ops did not want low-income housing built there.
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That has been changing, as rental buildings are increasingly converted to co-ops, with the downside of ousting some older residents, Ms. Rice said.
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They visited another apartment in Clinton Hill, a two-bedroom on the top floor of the nearby Willoughby Walk co-ops, built around 1958.
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Farmers already are looking at how they can transfer grain stored at private elevators to co-ops to take advantage of the new law.
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Coupled with historically low interest rates, two-bedroom buyers are stretching their dollars further with everything from income-restricted co-ops to shiny new condos.
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Like other corporations, co-ops are governed by state law that gives a board of directors wide latitude in matters like renovations, alterations and repairs.
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It will bottle milk for its own Great Value store brand, sourcing milk mainly from three nearby co-ops and a handful of independent farmers.
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Though rarely front and center in this high-profile debate, health insurance CO-OPs have nevertheless found themselves endangered by the biennial uncertainty it creates.
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In some states, CO-OPs are one of the few alternative options to existing commercial insurers, giving consumes the choice and competition they deeply desired.
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And unlike many brand-named insurers, CO-OPs are not abandoning the marketplaces and the Americans who rely on them for their health insurance needs.
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But the inability to collect from the program was a contributing factor to the deaths of several new insurance co-ops, also established under Obamacare.
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Many small, less experienced insurers, such as co-ops, had to pay into the program, a loss of funds that was very damaging to some.
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The compromise was the creation of about two dozen co-ops, the consumer-led, nonprofit insurers backed by government, but most of them have failed.
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Co-ops and condominiums make up about 30 percent of the housing, said Donna O'Reilly-Einemann, an associate broker at Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty.
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"We wanted to blend into the fabric" of the neighborhood, he said, but with amenities that the grande dame, prewar co-ops often cannot provide.
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Rural co-ops' opposition to air regulations is a combination of stubborn habit and justifiable protectiveness of their members, who are often poorer than average.
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And while co-ops and condos are tucked here and there across this slice of Midtown, there are only a handful of places to live.
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"Right now it's business as usual," said Michael J. Wolfe, president of Midboro Management, which manages 140 condos, co-ops and rentals in the city.
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Take the after-hours co-ops: Almost every Dutch general practitioner participates in one, but the co-op was their idea in the first place.
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In a preliminary report posted online Thursday, the commission recommended that the city assess most homes, including co-ops and condominiums, at full market value.
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In some co-ops, transferring an apartment after death to certain family members, like a spouse or an adult child, does not require board consent.
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The co-ops in Oregon, Illinois and Connecticut were all shut down days later, after state regulators said they would struggle to make those payments.
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More than 85033 consumer-owned, not-for-profit electric co-ops rely on PMAs for access to this important source of low-cost, clean electricity.
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Nyack also has co-ops, like the Salisbury Point complex, a red-brick, postwar property with 120 apartments next to the bridge in South Nyack.
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The Clinton Hill Co-ops were built for Navy Yard workers during World War II, and still bear maritime-themed tile mosaics over the doorways.
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Now, many of these co-ops are taking on the digital divide by offering high speed fiber optic internet to the home for their members.
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John HoevenJohn Henry HoevenPoll: McConnell is most unpopular senator McConnell ups pressure on White House to get a budget deal Senators introduce bill to prevent border agency from selling personal data MORE of North Dakota (whose home state boasts many co-ops) delivered an outsize benefit to farmers that chose to use local co-ops instead of independent companies — a 20 percent tax deduction.
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As co-ops across the nation prepare to apply for the next round of broadband grant funding, relief from this taxing problem can't come soon enough.
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Senator Rob Portman, Republican of Ohio, said that data submitted to the government by the co-ops raised "financial red flags" that should have caused alarm.
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The health law stipulates that co-ops must be governed by their members and that any profits must be used to lower premiums or improve benefits.
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HealthyCT is the 14th of 23 original Obamacare co-ops to fail since they began selling health plans on government-run Affordable Care Act insurance exchanges.
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Savings and credit co-operatives (SACCOs) like Imarisha are the African version of credit unions: member-owned co-ops, usually organised around a community or workplace.
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Europeans eventually recognized the model around 1844, and it formally came to the US. Blacks then started forming official co-ops in the 1860s and 1870s.
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Raudo: Urban requalification or, as they call it, "regeneration", is a new way for builder co-ops and their friends to make business using public money.
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I also saw how the co-ops where non-profits can use federal funds to establish insurance pools were underfunded and quickly fell by the wayside.
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Worth says that North Americans have a lot to learn from places such as Japan and Scandinavia, where co-ops and shared space are more common.
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But anecdotal evidence suggests that prices for co-ops and condominiums here dropped about 20 percent — a discount that is long gone, according to most brokers.
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My favorite turn of phrase was CHICKEN CO-OPS; I got seriously challenged by PHOENIX A-Z and was duly impressed by AMERICAN GOT HI-C.
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This will allow "community-driven broadband networks, such as public-private partnerships, rural co-ops or municipally owned broadband networks" to move forward without legal challenges.
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While most older apartment buildings are co-ops, newer condominium towers have sprung up, including the Aston on 71st Avenue and the Windsor on 71st Road.
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By the 1980s, a wave of gentrification had spread across the brownstones and apartment houses, and hotels like the Endicott were converted to luxury co-ops.
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The two co-ops join a host of other retailers taking action following the deadly mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
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The performance spaces and organic kale co-ops might be a huge red flag, but it's the fiberoptic cable that truly signals the end of days.
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Condos, co-ops, age-restricted rental apartments and an assisted-living facility line Lakeland Avenue, the thoroughfare stretching north to Sunrise Highway's big box shopping areas.
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Still, Mr. Matheson said, his member co-ops are already moving away from coal in response to economic reality: Other fuels have become more cost-effective.
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"She was very educated on H.D.F.C.'s," said the listing agent, Evelyn Magallanes, the owner/broker at City Living Realty, who specializes in H.D.F.C. co-ops.
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In 2016, buyers purchased 115 co-ops — the most common housing type — at an average sale price of $281,000, according to Trebach Realty, a local firm.
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Co-ops and condos are not taxed at their true market value under the current system, but rather on the income generated by similar rental buildings.
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There were 18 co-ops on the market, from a 450-square-foot studio for $215,000 to a 2,684-square-foot four-bedroom for $1.8 million.
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But it also brings unions and co-ops into the mix, which means workers would have a literal stake in the profits created by their labor.
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Some high-end co-ops restrict home improvement — in any case, demolition — to the summer months, thus potentially stretching out a full-on renovation for years.
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It seems that Crockett was not one of them, nor do I know of her trying to show with any artist co-ops around Eighth Street.
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His agent wasn't helpful, he said, informing him that his status as a foreigner limited him to condominiums, which tend to be more expensive than co-ops.
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Moreover, he said, the administration obscured the co-ops' problems by allowing them, in effect, to count some of their federal loans as assets rather than liabilities.
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But smaller insurers, particularly co-ops, have sometimes been strained by the program because their balance sheets are not large enough to cover the costs from it.
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But three years later, it's clear that the co-ops were priced much too low, and many have been unable to cover their members' pricey medical bills.
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The House on Tuesday passed a bill that would allow people enrolled in failed health insurance "co-ops" to skip this year's penalty for not having coverage.
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The GOP cast the bill as a way to protect people who lost their insurance because of the failure of three nonprofit networks known as co-ops.
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When I'm talking about co-ops, I am talking about a group who owns a business and is run off the principles of one person, one vote.
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Republicans have questioned how much of the $2.4 billion in government loans to the co-ops will actually be repaid, given that many of them have failed.
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In addition to single-family homes, the Bronx also has its share of co-ops, many of them in Riverdale, the affluent enclave in the northwestern Bronx.
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In 2005, knowing she couldn't afford to buy a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan, she bought one in the Clinton Hill Co-ops in Brooklyn for $250,000.
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In the meantime, CO-OPs will continue to do what they've learned to do best: enroll customers and provide them with high quality and innovative health insurance.
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"Co-ops are responsible for addressing whatever falls outside the four walls of the individual apartment," including vermin, said Andrew J. Wagner, a Manhattan real estate lawyer.
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The self-proclaimed democratic socialist also said that worker co-ops and collective bargaining are other forums in which worker pay increases can be voted on. Yep.
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The trustee in charge of the school's strategic planning — the individual tasked with helping to develop St. Bernard's vision — was a broker of Park Avenue co-ops.
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Only 212 girls' high school hockey teams compete, and many, like Bismarck and Grand Forks, are co-ops, made up of students from two or more schools.
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In 1998, the state attorney general barred Mr. Bistricer for life from selling condominiums and co-ops because of financial improprieties, although the order was later modified.
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Two-thirds of the co-ops have shuttered in the face of heavy losses, many because of operational problems, and the remainder are facing financial problems too.
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Since 230, New York City has seen a net decline of nearly 211,21 rent stabilized apartments, either through deregulation or conversion to co-ops or private use.
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Using $653 million in state, city and federal funds, it is responsible for building thousands of units of new and affordable rentals and co-ops throughout Harlem.
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The 154 co-ops and condominiums advertised included a studio at 1375 River Road for $125,000 and a three-bedroom unit at 10.45 Somerset Lane for $2,999,000.
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Across Manhattan, 22017 co-ops and condos were sold in January, a 21 percent decline from a year earlier, when 21,2.83 apartment sales were recorded, CityRealty said.
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Co-ops also use the Rural Energy Savings Program to work with consumers on energy efficiency solutions to their homes to save money on their energy bills.
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Co-ops have a reputation for heated debates, in part because their boards have more far-reaching control over things like approving sales than condo boards do.
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Co-ops also made up the largest share of sales — 52 percent of all closings — as buyers sought out better bargains, according to the report from Stribling.
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So it makes sense that the utilities most responsive to their customers — co-ops, where customers are also owners — are leading the way on shared solar projects.
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He cited shares in real estate co-ops in New York City which are bought by people who plan to live in the apartment that the shares represent.
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In contrast, the 63 condos and co-ops for sale in mid-January in the Gramercy Park neighborhood had an average price of $2.29 million, according to StreetEasy.com.
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There are options to shop at farmers' markets and co-ops, where you can take home your food purchases in your own re-usable containers and bulk bags.
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In the nineteen-twenties, the federal government passed a bill protecting coöperatives from antitrust laws, and during the Great Depression, when need bound people together, co-ops thrived.
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She also vowed to create an $85 billion grant program managed by the Department of Economic Development that would fund broadband efforts by nonprofits, co-ops and municipalities.
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Co-ops showed little growth, with 16 selling in 2013 at an average of $110,000, while in 2015, 10 sold at an average of $111,000, the board said.
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At Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, students complete co-ops and spend up to a third of their coursework doing community service, internships, or full-time work.
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Dr. Martin Hickey is Board Chair of the National Alliance of State Health CO-OPs, and CEO of the CO-OP in New Mexico: New Mexico Health Connections.
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If you had that crazy cash, you could buy approximately 2900 Gulfstream G220006s, at $2202 million each; more than 2628 co-ops in the famous 28500 Park Ave.
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In recent years, some of the co-ops have discovered a workaround, programming the elevators to stop automatically only on the floors with residents who use the service.
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The organization has urged several Housing Development Fund Corporation co-ops in the neighborhood to go solar, but convincing people to spend money for future savings is difficult.
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Ioki said the bakery is contacting local co-ops and grocery stores who are not able to keep up with the amount of bread needed to feed people.
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In 2015, the city began taking action on 353 co-ops as part of a roundup of hundreds of residential buildings that were in deep debt or disrepair.
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Way uptown, modest styles and rentals dominate, though co-ops also exist, as in Inwood, at No. 23, a six-story brick prewar building facing Fort Tryon Park.
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Other co-ops, with Tudor facades, are tucked here and there, like Grand Gardens, on West Grand Street, with apartments that offer archways, moldings and eat-in kitchens.
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In 2016, of the 172 co-ops and condos that sold, the average was $19393 million, said Jonathan J. Miller, president of Miller Samuel Real Estate Appraisers & Consultants.
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Perhaps the most predictable failure of ObamaCare is the collapse of the Consumer-Oriented and Operated Plans, or CO-OPs, which have cost taxpayers more than $1 billion.
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Many of the new smaller insurers like the CO-OPs took an additional bruising when the CMS revealed on June 30 it owes millions in risk adjustment payments.
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Most of the insurance start-ups inspired by the Affordable Care Act, including Northwell's CareConnect and the so-called co-ops created under the law, could not survive.
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Like banks, co-ops set rules about how much shareholders can borrow, often tying the loan to the value of the apartment and your debt-to-income ratio.
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The City Council has in the past tried and failed to pass legislation requiring co-ops to provide their reasons for rejecting an applicant, along with other information.
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The term "plastic food" entered the activist lexicon, and soon there was a "countercuisine" that gave us organic gardens, co-ops, and lots of homemade granola and yogurt.
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Sales of existing condos, co-ops, townhomes, and single-family houses increased by 3.3%, at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.69 million, the highest since February 2007.
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Some co-ops and condominiums spend as much as $5,000 on holiday displays, according to Jacob Sirotkin, the vice president of Century, a property management company in Manhattan.
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Under the city's antiquated property tax system, co-ops and condos are not taxed at their true market value, but on the income generated by similar rental buildings.
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In Manhattan, sale prices of luxury co-ops and condominiums fell 3.2 percent annually to $9,299, 635, according to Douglas Elliman's quarterly report by Miller Samuel Real Estate Appraisers.
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Compared to the same period in the previous year, the median price of co-ops declined for the first time in 13 straight quarters, according to the Elliman report.
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The median price for condos was $345,000, compared to $339,250 the previous year; for co-ops, the median price was $115,000 this year, down slightly from $122,000 last year.
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Co-ops work with dairy farmers to get their milk to market, whether it be as fluid milk or cheese, ice cream, yogurt, sour cream, or as dried milk.
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The party has also said it will make it easier for co-ops to acquire finance, lack of which is one of the main things that holds them back.
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Taxes should be higher and marketing restrictions tighter; there's even a case for keeping commercial enterprises out of the industry altogether and restricting sales to consumer-owned co-ops.
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Most STEM skills are not taught, cultivated and honed exclusively in a classroom, so internships and co-ops are beneficial to place hand-in-hand with your educational experience.
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The House bill, which passed 6900 to 2628, would prevent people enrolled in failed health insurance "co-ops" from having to pay a penalty under ObamaCare for lacking insurance.
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With a budget of $2000,21 to $2003,2200, they found a predictable pattern for two-bedroom co-ops and condominiums: Sellers had either a growing toddler or a second baby.
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Blame nature, then, for my years of leisurely strolls through the Madison Avenue flagship, the Warehouse Sale, various Co-Ops, even the outlets on both sides of the country.
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Residents of the Riviera and the Grinnell started a committee in the hopes of persuading nearby co-ops and condos that they, too, can profit from the film industry.
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And those co-ops, which started at $53,000, weren't just found in urbanized Long Island City, but also in more suburban neighborhoods like Whitestone, Forest Hills and Bay Terrace.
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Mr. Barnett predicted that his building, a condo in an area filled with co-ops, would do well and sell all of its units in a speedy six months.
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It makes cheap loans (30 years at 0003 percent) available to rural co-ops that want to invest in renewable energy or make energy-efficiency improvements for end users.
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Co-ops, which make up a major chunk of Manhattan's housing stock, also saw weakened sales volume in 2018, although average prices were slightly higher than the previous year.
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The future of gig work could involve unions and co-ops Behind the scenes, an alternative approach to California's AB 5 worker protection law has been picking up steam.
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So the $12,000 a month that Dr. Sacco and her colleagues pay in rent goes to him, not the building, an arrangement that is not uncommon in co-ops.
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But Dutch patients weren't thrilled with the idea of the co-ops when they first started nearly 220 years ago, wary about seeing somebody other than their normal physician.
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About half of the offerings were one-bedrooms, with an average asking price of $143,000 for co-ops and $1.461 million for condos; the two-bedrooms averaged $2.283 million.
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U.S. manufacturers that require these "technology metals" also could set up rare earth cooperatives, similar to the co-ops currently used by the agriculture, ethanol, lumber and hardware industries.
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" More co-ops, condos and rentals across the country, she added, "like a vacation rental agency in North Carolina and a condo in Oregon, ask for this more frequently.
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They could also build value-added processing, like packing houses, salsa kitchens, to handle their ugly produce either as individual farms or co-ops, using those grant loan resources.
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In many cases, the co-ops are already investing in gigabit fiber loops to keep their systems online, so the only hurdle is sending out fiber to the home.
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While intended to preserve prior Section 199 treatment for these smaller entities, the actual effect of the law was to upset the careful symbiosis that has long existed in the grain industry — smaller co-ops handled a portion of the harvest, while larger private companies handled larger deliveries (both directly from farmers and co-ops), as well as the mechanics of getting that grain to far-flung markets for use as feed and food.
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"Some co-ops don't allow children to live there without the parents living there for a certain period of time first," said Frances Katzen, an associate broker at Douglas Elliman.
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He noted that the co-ops had to create networks of doctors and hospitals from scratch and were typically small businesses competing against big insurance companies with decades of experience.
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"Even though the Supreme Court has upheld the Affordable Care Act multiple times," Mr. Wyden said, "the political battles have continued, and co-ops are one of the big targets."
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Of the original 23 Obamacare not-for-profit health insurance co-ops funded with federal tax dollars, four more have recently failed taking the total number of insolvencies to 16.
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We crossed back over the border, and hit up one of the many co-ops that we tend to go to on tour: Community Food Co-op in Bellingham, Washington.
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The group started out as a nonprofit and now offers technical guidance and financing assistance to a network of 220 co-ops in 15 states, with more than 14,000 homeowners.
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While the controversy was ostensibly about landscaping, it illustrates how changing demographics can create rifts in co-ops where a new generation of buyers with different values challenges longstanding conventions.
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And in the Melrose/Morrisania area, in the South Bronx, 50 market-rate co-ops sold in the first quarter compared with 16 in the same time frame last year.
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In Rockaway Beach as narrowly defined, colonials, Cape Cods and Victorians mix with two-families, condominiums and co-ops built alongside bungalows that imbue the neighborhood with a castaway spirit.
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Mensakas is also allied with CoopCycle, a European federation of bike delivery co-ops in 16 cities, who are pooling their resources to develop shared software and coordinate advocacy efforts.
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He wanted to create worker-owned co-ops for all the city's needs—for collecting garbage, for growing the food served at schools, for taking on the plentiful engineering challenges.
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The average price of about 290 existing condos and co-ops for sale in late June in the financial district was $1.69 million, according to the real estate website StreetEasy.
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Solar capacity at co-ops, which are not-for-profit utilities owned by their customers, has tripled in the last three years, according to the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.
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Nevertheless, the egalitarian landscape is dotted with islands of agreement: communes, co-ops, and well-organized competitions in which a shared theory of equality is used for some practical purpose.
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Mr. Shaw said that those who could pay less included some single-family homes in Queens and Staten Island and certain co-ops and condominiums in parts of the Bronx.
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"Because of those complications and because co-ops are so unique to the New York marketplace, banks don't allow reverse mortgages," said Zack Tolmie, a home-lending officer at Citibank.
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Scott Berman, hospitality and leisure group leader at the consulting firm PwC, said that at more than $2,000 a square foot, the co-ops have few comparables in other resorts.
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Asked if the CMS acknowledges that regulators should have shut the co-ops down sooner, CMS spokesman Aaron Albright instead pointed to state regulators, noting they have primary oversight responsibility.
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She previously served as senior policy advisor to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) TOMORROW'S SCHEDULE: Senate Finance Committee holds a hearing on ObamaCare co-ops at 28503 a.m.
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And because the city's property tax system is antiquated, co-ops and condos are not taxed at their true market value, but on the income generated by similar rental buildings.
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"We will use every available tool to recoup federal funding," Mr. Slavitt said, but he offered no estimate of how much money the government might recover from loans to co-ops.
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The council has also encouraged local firms to consider becoming co-operatives—which are owned and controlled by their workers—and lobbied its anchor institutions to deal more with co-ops.
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People are capable of collectively bargaining over health care — employers do it with insurance companies every day, and cooperative health arrangements such as religious health-care co-ops do the same.
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Even the non-profit Consumer-Oriented and Operated Plans (or "co-ops") created by the law have failed at a rate of nearly 70 percent, mostly for the same financial reasons.
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And she hopes that down the road, she can expand the project to empower Tanzania's female population — starting co-ops where women can sell the honey harvested from the fence's hives.
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Just look at Obamacare's "CO-OPs" — non-profit health insurance companies which were billed as an alternative solution to the public option that did not make it into the final law.
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The average monthly maintenance charge at Manhattan co-ops has ballooned 21 percent since 2600, to $2700 a square foot from $23, according to data from the appraisal firm Miller Samuel.
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Retained Earnings, Board Policies Provide Flexibility Co-ops generally distribute the majority of their earnings back to members, which can constrain financial flexibility resulting in low free cash flow (FCF) generation.
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On the surface, we're the quintessential Brooklyn duo: We have tasteful tattoos and piercings, we shop at food co-ops, we attend spin class together, and we're creative yet gainfully employed.
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The homes are known as Housing Development Fund Corporation co-ops, or H.D.F.C.s, and the H.D.F.C. Coalition is a group of residents that formed 26 years ago to help each other.
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The package of sponsor-owned co-ops includes 210 studios, 2600 one-bedrooms and six two-bedrooms, and sold for 19853 the rent roll with a cap rate of 21985 percent.
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In practice, they fall short of the "seven cooperative principles" of true co-ops in a number of ways, as John Farrell of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance has written.
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There were also 17 condominiums and co-ops for sale, from a 700-square-foot, one-bedroom co-op for $129,000 to a 2,182-square-foot, two-bedroom condo for $799,19313.
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First, there are more than 8,000 power plants in the country, ranging from large, well-connected investor owned utilities to small, rural co-ops with a fraction of the customer base.
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Of the co-ops and condos that closed between $28 million and $22019 million in Manhattan last year, 22008 percent were discounted, up from 22015 percent in 22016, according to StreetEasy.
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The apartment needed a lot of work, he added, and they had to meet H.D.F.C. (Housing Development Fund Corporation) income restrictions, which is fairly common in the area's older co-ops.
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One such fix would be aimed at grain farmers who under the current tax law get a larger tax break for selling their grain to co-ops rather than other buyers.
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"Romantic connections among board members, shareholders, building staff, agents, contractors and others have been around co-ops and condos since their creation," said Arthur I. Weinstein, a Manhattan real estate lawyer.
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Writing in City Journal, Oren Cass argues that worker co-ops, of the kind found in Sweden and Denmark, are better suited to today's flexible labor markets than old-fashioned unions.
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Rental apartment buildings bear a disproportionate share of the city's tax burden while multimillion-dollar brownstones and co-ops and condos at the high end of the market get steep breaks.
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He arranged to meet with a lawyer and looked into a couple of jobs in other buildings — without the free apartment, he cannot stay at Clinton Hill Co-ops, he said.
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But 12 of the 23 co-ops have shut down, disrupting coverage for more than a half-million consumers, many of whom had to search for other providers of insurance for 20163.
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Federal health officials, he said, failed to respond promptly to concerns expressed by federal auditors and state insurance regulators who scrutinized the co-ops, including one that collapsed in Iowa and Nebraska.
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The average sale price for condos or co-ops in Manhattan was $1.66 million during the third quarter, down 14% from last year, according to a report from Douglas Elliman Real Estate.
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Unfortunately, opponents of the law have spent years chipping away at funding for everything from CO-OPs to programs that help stabilize premiums to outreach efforts that help uninsured Americans find coverage.
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I live in Manchester now, and it feels like here and in Glasgow we can still do DIY club nights, live in big houses, or co-ops altogether—it's just the same.
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Second, instituting a public option or re-committing to the insurance co-ops for those Americans who find themselves without affordable options for care is another way we can win for Americans.
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There were 1,953 farmer, rancher and fishery co-ops in 2016 in the United States, down 4.6 percent from a year earlier, according to the most recent U.S. Department of Agriculture data.
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In the late 1960s and early '683s, George Maciunas, the founder of the neo-Dada artists' collective Fluxus, converted 16 of the neighborhood's neglected industrial buildings into artist co-ops, or Fluxhouses.
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In 2017, through late August, the average sale price of 94 co-ops and condos was $988,000, according to data prepared by Jonathan Miller, the president of the Miller Samuel appraisal firm.
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This terra-cotta building, with residential co-ops above the 5163,2516 square feet of dividable ground-floor retail space, sits across from City Hall Park and adjacent to Pace University's Manhattan campus.
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The subsidies proposed by the FCC will be open to companies like small community providers, co-ops and locally run wireless providers who serve rural areas where the national carriers won't build.
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Today, there are many well-known large-scale co-ops, including outdoor recreation store REI, Arizmendi Bakery in San Francisco and Blue Diamond Growers, one of the world's largest tree-nut processors.
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Attractive antique co-ops also dot Midtown, like the Osborne, whose brownstone facade is speckled with stained-glass windows, and Alwyn Court, whose sumptuous terra-cotta details include cherubs, salamanders and crowns.
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In contrast, in 2015, buyers snapped up 129 co-ops at an average sale price of $19303,000, according to the firm, though brokers point out that the pool of buyers is widening.
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Six insurers, including several of the ACA-created Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans, or CO-OPs, are suing the administration over money, while a number of others are planning to file lawsuits.
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"Having your own place on the beach is a very special thing," Mr. Filopoulos said, particularly since the co-ops' proximity to the ocean cannot be duplicated in Montauk under current zoning.
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To reach this level of efficiency, Retazo has created the Moda Lab, a bridge between apparel factories, garment workers, designers and small sewing co-ops comprised mostly of women working from home.
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Over the years, these co-ops have been among the first dormitories to offer mixed-gender and mixed-race housing, and have been the sites of important protests against war and inequality.
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Sales of co-ops, which are typically older and less expensive than condos, rose 4 percent compared to the same period last year, according to a new report from the Corcoran Group.
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And thousands of Americans will lose health plans they were promised they could keep, again because more and more insurers are being forced out while co-ops continue to collapse at every turn.
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In reality, they're like the co-ops of money, as Stacy Mitchell, the co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a think tank focused on community-based economics, explained to me.
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There are mid-block prewar co-ops on the Upper West Side and Upper East Side, for example, that "have nothing more than the structural needs that make them a building," he said.
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Regardless of the new Congress's and Administration's approach to solve our health care challenges, the remaining CO-OPs have proven their value in both the health insurance marketplace and the marketplace of ideas.
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The generation of farmers that organized under the Federation of Southern Cooperatives in the 1960s and 70s is aging out of existence, and the new generation of black co-ops is still emerging.
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Victor Morisete-Romero, a consultant who offers his services at no cost to co-ops filing applications to save their buildings, said the city failed to notify residents until it was too late.
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But for the hippies it wasn't enough to grow the food differently; it had to be sold and distributed differently, too, which meant networks of buying clubs and co-ops and farmer's markets.
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"The risk adjustment formula was extremely biased in favor of large, established insurers and discriminated against new and small insurers, including co-ops like ours," Dr. Hickey said in an interview on Saturday.
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In the nineteen-thirties, universities like Berkeley, Michigan, and Toronto formed student co-ops that provided access to education and lodging for members who would not otherwise have been able to attend college.
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The new code has pushed the private companies to spend thousands of dollars to form co-ops or find alternative ways to get their hands on billions of bushels of U.S. corn and soybeans.
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"It's just creating turmoil and this uncertainty is just driving everybody crazy," said Bob Zelenka, executive director of the Minnesota Grain and Feed Association, a trade group that represents co-ops and private companies.
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In the '70s, he bought a shell of a building on 85th, between Columbus and Amsterdam, and renovated the whole thing, actually he and my mother, and they sold it out as co-ops.
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"We had a good, robust discussion of all the different models of co-ops that we knew and what we thought we should do and what problems we were trying to address," Holtz said.
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For years, co-ops and a subset of older rentals were able to get by on their good looks, old world charm, pedigree and, maybe, a discreet gym or children's playroom in the basement.
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When we were not affected by the various challenges to the law itself, the obstacles of being start-up businesses combined with unfavorable policy changes proved to be obstacles many CO-OPs couldn't overcome.
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The problem is instead that plant-based meats, just like plant-based milks, are no longer consumed solely by the very small portion of Americans who are vegan and shop at local co-ops.
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One potential route in producing "superior Muslims" is to follow the model of Orthodox Jewish Americans and invest tremendous resources and time to create enclosed schools or home schooling co-ops for our communities.
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Buyers who like historic details may incline toward the unit, one of 20 in a walk-up brick building completed in about 1921 by Finnish developers who constructed several co-ops in the area.
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The new development arrives at a time when some buyers are turning away from co-ops, which are more common than condos in the area, said Melissa Leifer, an agent with Keller Williams TriBeCa.
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"Co-ops need a lot more paperwork, and it's a stricter financial profile," she said, noting that many self-employed people and cash buyers are willing to pay a premium to avoid the scrutiny.
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The High End Some things don't change much on the Upper West Side: the classic prewar co-ops, the caravans of baby strollers, and Zabar's, the grocer of choice for many smoked-fish aficionados.
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The commission recommended that the city assess most homes, including co-ops and condominiums, at full market value, and remove a cap on how much the value of a property can increase each year.
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She is a daughter of Victoria A. Chesler and Matthew R. Kovner of Olivebridge N.Y. The bride's parents co-founded The Cooperator, a monthly magazine about co-ops and condominiums published in New York.
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Now, 17 of the original 23 CO-OPs have closed as a result of too few young and healthy people and too many old or sick people signing up, which created a costly imbalance.
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She checked out some one-bedroom co-ops in Southbridge Towers, opened in 6563 as part of the Mitchell-Lama program, but the nine-building complex near South Street Seaport felt overwhelming and impersonal.
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The Grain Glitch: Long an issue in the negotiations, Republicans have been trying to secure a fix in the 2017 tax law that allows a break for farmers that sell grain to co-ops.
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Closing costs are substantially higher for condos and houses than they are for co-ops because co-op buyers do not pay a mortgage recording tax, which is about 2 percent of the mortgage.
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Rather than shifting funds away from critical programs that have a storied record of success, the administration should be working with the PMAs, co-ops and other stakeholders to jumpstart rural America's economic engines.
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The governing documents for almost all co-ops require the cooperative to maintain the exterior of the building and the building systems, while shareholders are responsible for alterations within the apartment, Mr. Sherman said.
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But just as many communities are beginning to jump on the co-op craze, President Trump's leadership at the Federal Communications Commission could set up roadblocks to co-ops looking to expand to internet.
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"What we found was trying to satisfy co-ops and private grain operators was a challenge, and trying to get both of them to agree on final language has been a real challenge," Thune said.
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And as great wealth flows into the city, the resulting story of economic disparity is played out in buildings like yours — co-ops in neighborhoods that were once solidly middle class, but are now rich.
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National Association of Housing Cooperatives has a complete list of co-ops, the 6th Principle Coalition lists only limited-equity options, and the Partnerships for Affordable Cohousing provides information on previous and upcoming cohousing projects.
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However, as a new generation faces systemic challenges like the police shootings of unarmed blacks, young activists are taking another look at economic efforts like co-ops as a possible way to fight institutional inequality.
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But when people think of co-ops in Berkeley they do not tend to picture the Berkeley Co-op, with its bright supermarkets stocking just about everything a red-blooded American might want to eat.
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In Manhattan co-ops and condos, the average balcony measures only 50 square feet, but the average terrace is 650 square feet, and the average roof deck is 235 square feet, according to Mr. Miller.
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In 2014 and 2015, analyses indicated states with CO-OPs boasted significantly lower premiums than those without, meaning even those who didn't enroll in a CO-OP benefited from lower relative premiums across the board.
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For instance, when ObamaCare's CO-OPs collapsed, thousands of consumers' healthcare coverage was disrupted, leaving them little time to find a new plan before being forced to pay a tax penalty under the individual mandate.
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"Our local transit agencies, housing authorities, rural electric and agriculture co-ops, and other municipal services employ millions of people and, best of all, are already publicly owned," says Billy Fleming of the McHarg Center.
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The organic movement started out in the last century as an alternative to industrial agriculture, a vision of family farms, green fields and co-ops, and has now led us to 703 percent organic Goldfish.
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"This is not how it normally works with co-ops, but we had their contractor and their architect do drawings and plans, and submitted that before the co-op even approved them," Mr. Salem said.
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As of mid-August, 114 co-ops had sold this year for an average of $1.57 million, according to StreetEasy; at the same point last year, 23 had sold for an average of $1.42 million.
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The bill also contains a fix to the GOP's tax bill known as the "grain glitch" that had incentivized grain farmers to sell their product to co-ops at a disadvantage to other private buyers.
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Of all the condos and co-ops that closed in 2019, a hefty 81 percent needed at least one price cut before landing a buyer, according to data from the real estate data firm StreetEasy.
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Many buildings became co-ops with such "sweat equity," and whole blocks were renovated with the help of the Manhattan Valley Development Corporation, a nonprofit that now manages more than 780 units of affordable housing.
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In recent years, the debate surrounding the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel over its treatment of Palestinians has expanded from food co-ops and university department meetings to the House of Representatives.
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Ms. Traynor mostly deals in co-ops and condos, but looking through warehouse listings, she found a 800-square-foot, undivided live/work space in an old industrial building on Atlantic Avenue in Crown Heights.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. agricultural merchants are scrambling to register themselves as cooperatives after a blunder in the country's new tax law gave farmers a tax break for selling grains to co-ops rather than private firms.
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To highlight potential bargains across the extensive two-bedroom market, we looked at income-restricted units for first-time buyers, prewar co-ops with deep discounts, new condos with back-end sweeteners, and options beyond Manhattan.
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Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah and the chairman of the Finance Committee, said that some co-ops had set premiums far below the prices of their competitors and incurred costs that greatly exceeded revenue.
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To get the app into more smartphones, Alsok is working with 23 companies and organisations, such as 7-Eleven outlets, and other co-ops, to get employees there to download the app into their personal smartphones.
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The measure is aimed at helping enrollees of three nonprofit health insurers set up under ObamaCare, known as co-ops, that have failed in the middle of this year, forcing people to find a new plan.
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Which explains why some co-ops that want to hold their value, and some rentals that want to hold on to their tenants, are busy adding offerings, or subtracting them, as fads and changing demographics demand.
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Refinancing a co-op is less expensive than refinancing other kinds of residential property, Mr. Roth pointed out: Because co-ops are not classified as real property, some closing costs like title insurance do not apply.
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One evening this month, Ms. Rajkumar was knocking on doors at the Grand Street Co-ops, a housing complex once managed by Harold Jacob, known as Heshy, an Orthodox Jewish power broker aligned with Mr. Silver.
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That means wandering into dark dance clubs where punk singers thrash to techno beats, college housing co-ops host Congolese DIY bands, or quiet black box theaters play sounds recorded from the bottom of the ocean.
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The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) counts as members 173 distribution co-ops and 217 G&Ts, which together serve around 2000 million people in 240 states, along with 18.5 million businesses, schools, hospitals, etc.
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At Skyview, a complex of more than 1,300 units built in the 1960s, the developer Myles Horn and ABC Properties have bought a block of 176 rental units to be converted into high-end co-ops.
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To date, 12 — more than half — of these CO-OPs have failed, costing the taxpayers $1.23 billion and leaving more than a quarter of a million people looking for new insurance options — now with fewer choices.
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The provision was added to the tax law in an effort to address the fact that under the old tax code, co-ops could claim the domestic production deduction, which was repealed under the new law.
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"Young people may want the amenities and structure of the building to reflect their lifestyle," said Stewart E. Wurtzel, a partner of Tane Waterman & Wurtzel, P.C., a law firm that counsels about 150 local co-ops.
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"I have several buyers looking for the enviable locations of prewar co-ops, close to Central Park on Park or Fifth, but who also want the finishes offered by the higher-end new development condos," Mrs.
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ObamaCare had another bad month, as four more of the co-ops set up with U.S. taxpayer dollars to provide consumers with a nonprofit choice for insurance failed — this time in Connecticut, Illinois, Ohio and Oregon.
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"We were paying people overtime, and we had 350 work tickets that were backed up," said Audrey Churchill, a board member who moved to the Co-ops in 2004, after growing up in public housing nearby.
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Deloitte offers this information-packed breakdown of shared solar by utility type: As you can see, co-ops run the largest number of shared solar projects, but those projects are typically tiny, in the low kilowatts.
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Most of the newcomers, brokers say, have gravitated toward the prewar co-ops and brownstone blocks around the hillside park in the northeastern quadrant, where coffee shops and cafes like Parkette Brooklyn and Parlay are popping up.
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Because shared equity serves a beautifully diverse population, ranging from Houston's municipal land trust in the historically black, displacement-vulnerable Third Ward, to rural mobile home co-ops, it can be a unifying and uniquely American solution.
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But people in these communities have also approved public money to kick-start local markets, and they are supporting co-ops whose cloth-bag values and hand-stuffed packs of arugula can feel more Berkeley than Mayberry.
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The development of Up & Go was guided by three immigrant-led cleaning co-ops over a year-long process of co-design and testing, made possible in part by funding from the anti-poverty Robin Hood Foundation.
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The heart of the peninsula, the village of Great Neck Plaza, has 49 co-ops, 19 condominiums, 6593 rental buildings, 48 single-family homes, several senior residential options and two boutique hotels, said Jean Celender, the mayor.
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Until now, farmers had every reason to avail themselves of all offtake options in an otherwise efficient market for their crops, selling to both co-ops and independents based largely on price, location, speed and other intangibles.
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"It's provided a relief valve for people pressed for affordability," Diane M. Ramirez, the chairman and chief executive of Halstead said about the resilience of co-ops, which tend to be older and less expensive than condos.
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Tax bill fix The omnibus contains a fix to the GOP's tax bill known as the "grain glitch" that had incentivized grain farmers to sell their product to co-ops at a disadvantage to other private buyers.
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Currently, people who own multimillion-dollar brownstones in Brooklyn and high-rise co-ops by Central Park often pay less in taxes than working-class homeowners in the South Bronx, relative to the value of their properties.
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There was enough interest at stores and co-ops in Portland and Seattle that one location in the latter city started a "Tofurky hotline," Tibbott says, in order for customers to call ahead and place their orders.
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For the year, closed transactions for all condos and co-ops was expected to reach 10,400, with sales totaling $21.2 billion, slightly lower than the 10,531 transactions in 2018 and $21.8 billion in sales, according to CityRealty.
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Citizens LLC, a privately held grain elevator in Michigan, has seen its share of those sales fall as farmers have booked more deals with co-ops because of the tax rule, said Angie Setzer, vice president of grain.
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Upper Manhattan just had the fewest third-quarter sales of co-ops and condos in a decade, said Mr. Miller, the appraiser, in part because of a surge of new expensive inventory and ambitious resale pricing that followed.
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ADM and Cargill Inc, two of the world's top agricultural traders, joined talks with Hoeven, Senate aides, and trade associations that represent co-ops and private firms to come up with a way to even the playing field.
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In co-ops, participants often share the cost of maintenance and amenities, so rather than paying rent or mortgage, members pay a monthly fee to cover their share of expenses (mortgage, property taxes, maintenance costs, insurance premiums, utilities).
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He pointed to a report from the committee's Republican staff that found that five of the 12 co-ops that failed were never put on "corrective action" by the CMS in an attempt to turn them around. Sen.
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Of course, the government incurred other costs in getting ObamaCare up and running—financing the creation of exchanges, launching its website, bankrolling star-crossed co-ops, promoting enrollment, and undertaking other efforts to implement and hype the law.
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The online real estate resource site narrowed down the top 113 most expensive U.S. ZIP codes based on median home sale prices by analyzing transactions for condos, co-ops and single- and two-family homes made between Jan.
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It's one of the best couch co-ops I've sat down with in ages, a frantically fun kitchen-service comedy sim that rewards you with laughs when you fail and a real feeling of achievement when you don't.
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But co-ops, drawing on more successful models used in several European nations, could represent workers in negotiations, train and retrain workers as they moved from firm to firm and build a safety net for periods of unemployment.
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NEW YORK An article on Monday about the foreclosure of dozens of co-ops in recent years misstated the monthly amount that residents of a building in Harlem pay to cover back water bills, taxes and debt service.
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In Seattle, Washington, there are several apartments, co-ops, and condos listed for around the median home price, including an 884-square-foot 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom condo and a 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom 769-square-foot condo.
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Originally, the Liberty House stores functioned as nonprofits, but even as the business model changed and the Southern co-ops disbanded, the focus was on buying inventory from fair-trade vendors long before it became commonplace and fashionable.
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Indeed, 94 percent of all homes are rentals, according to the census, versus 77 percent in Manhattan, though co-ops (like 37 Nagle Avenue) do exist, and there are a few condos as well (23 Broadway, for example).
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From 2012 to 2016, the median price of co-ops has gone down while the median price for condos has increased, said Nick Gross, a licensed real estate salesman at TripleMint, based on numbers developed by his firm.
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"The law is set up to make sure that co-ops' expenses are allocated based on the number of shares," said Leni Morrison Cummins, a real estate lawyer in the Manhattan office of the law firm Cozen O'Connor.
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"This legislation severely limits property owners from making independent decisions, which would affect every landlord, including co-ops, condos, and small mom and pops," Carlo Scissura, who heads the organization, wrote in a letter to Johnson on Monday.
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Mr. Caballero, 21, started working as a handyman in the Co-ops in February 2200, and he was given an apartment 303 years later, with the understanding that he would be available for emergency repairs at all hours.
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"We are very concerned it's going to have a huge chilling effect on high-end co-ops and condos," Mr. Banks said in an interview on Tuesday, adding that he'd been taking calls from concerned members all week.
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Rural power co-ops have found themselves well positioned to build fiber networks into sparsely populated areas without losing money, which was deemed impossible by big telecom companies who refused to invest in places without high population density.
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Multifamily homes line some streets in the southern part of town, and co-ops and condos are predominantly found on Pelham Road and Palmer Avenue and near the Wykagyl shopping area serving the northern neighborhood of the same name.
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Both bankers and politicians vehemently oppose a proposed deposit-insurance scheme for the euro zone: the savings banks and co-ops have always looked out for each other, and don't see why they should insure Greeks and Italians, too.
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Before long, no fewer than 150 entities — including 27 states, 24 trade associations, 37 rural electric co-ops and three labor unions — challenged the plan in court, arguing that the EPA overstepped its authority under the Clean Air Act.
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Charles and Inez Barron, longtime movement friends of Lumumba's, want to use their positions in the state assembly and the city council in New York State to set up co-ops in some of New York City's poorest neighborhoods.
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According to the housing and development agency, the co-ops on the foreclosure list each have an average $972,000 in debt and an average of 78 violations, such as for pests, mold and lack of heat and hot water.
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An interesting paper on "Moral Hazard in Teams" combines the insurance ideas and compensation ideas to provide a speculative account of why worker-owned co-ops have not, in practice, been a very successful corporate form in the marketplace.
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Now that the handcuffs of coal are starting to loosen and financing challenges are being overcome, I wouldn't be surprised to see renewable energy embraced by rural co-ops, perhaps even with more enthusiasm than their investor-owned counterparts.
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In early November, 82 properties in the neighborhood were for sale, according to Zillow, most of them single-family houses and co-ops — and some of which were revealed as being in Yonkers only in their ads' fine print.
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In the third quarter, the median sales price of resale apartments, including condos and co-ops, rose a modest 1.9 percent, to $995,000, compared to the same period last year — a new record, according to a Douglas Elliman report.
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In 2014, 54 co-ops and condos sold at an average of $2.27 million, according to the appraisal firm Miller Samuel, while two years later, in 2016, 203 sold at an average of $2.58 million, a 14 percent increase.
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Median sales prices for co-ops and condos in 53 were $290,000 for studios, up 28.9 percent from 2014, and $440,000 for one-bedrooms, up 20.5 percent, according to Jonathan J. Miller, the president of the appraisal firm Miller Samuel.
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Cooperative businesses have two key characteristics: Since 2006, the Center for Family Life has helped start fifteen co-ops—ranging from childcare to home repair services—with a total of 534 workers and $11 million in revenue, according to the organization.
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The NAR's existing home sales data measures sales and prices of existing single-family homes for the nation overall, providing breakdowns for the West, Midwest, South and Northeast regions of the U.S. These figures also include condos and co-ops.
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Twelve of the 23 co-ops have now gone out of business, and Republicans point to the $1.2 billion in government loans to those failed ventures that will not be paid back in full and in some cases, not at all.
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She is a real estate saleswoman at Brown Harris Stevens, a real estate firm in New York, where she works as a team with her mother, a broker, selling co-ops, condominiums and townhouses mainly on the Upper East Side.
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That quilt is joined together by a handful of regional hubs, Although it's dominated by some very large companies, it's also populated by thousands of regional power co-ops, which often receive far less oversight than the bigger, more critical players.
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If she wins, she'll have a mandate to pursue an aggressive progressive agenda including a $15-an-hour minimum wage, rural co-ops to provide high-speed broadband throughout the state, and, yes, another bite at the single-payer apple.
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Plans were soon underway to seed, first, three interlocking co-ops: an urban farm, a catering company named in honor of Lumumba's wife, Nubia, who died in 2003, and a composting company to recycle the caterers' waste back into the farm.
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Andrea Levine, the broker-owner of Keller Williams Realty Gold Coast, using data from the Multiple Listing Service of Long Island, said 6373 houses, 103 co-ops and 23 condos were for sale on the Great Neck peninsula on July 25.
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As of early November, 183 single-family houses, condos and co-ops had sold in 2018 for an average price of $457,000, according to Zillow's data; during the same period in 443, 177 homes sold, at an average price of $494,000.
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Many of the postwar buildings that were built as rentals were converted to co-ops in the 1980s, and they deserve recognition in their own right, said Jonathan J. Miller, president of the appraisal firm Miller Samuel, which analyzed the data.
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Each week, our survey of recent residential sales in New York City and the surrounding region focuses on homes that sold around a certain price point, allowing you to compare single-family homes, condos and co-ops in different locales.
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The average sales price of those properties — all apartments, co-ops and condominiums sold in Manhattan this year — reached a record $2.2 million, or $1,886 a square foot, according to a year-end market report by CityRealty, which tracks apartment sales.
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As artists started organizing co-ops to buy the buildings, the area became more convenient in some ways (a grocery store, Dean & DeLuca, opened on the corner of Prince and Greene Streets in 1977) but also more commercial and expensive.
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The High End In the latest sign that Montauk, N.Y., has gone upscale, Gurney's Montauk Resort & Seawater Spa has replaced 5003 hotel rooms at the former Panoramic View with six oceanfront co-ops priced from $2.2 million to $2.8 million.
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These digital amenities, which are controlled by voice commands and smartphone apps and use robots, are turning up across the New York area in condos, co-ops and rentals, even if users may have to contend with a few glitches.
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Calculator The five most-viewed listings on The New York Times's "Find a Home" site last month were all in New York City — and three of them were Manhattan co-ops priced below $500,000, which is increasingly rare in that borough.
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In addition to two condo units, four co-ops and two multifamily homes for sale, there were 30 available rental apartments, from a 600-square-foot studio for $1,400 a month, to a 2,000-square-foot four-bedroom for $4,500.
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Elaine Tross, an associate broker at Halstead Property who runs a website called Pet-Friendly Manhattan Real Estate, estimated that about 21916 percent of residential buildings in New York today allow dogs, with condominiums and co-ops generally more pet-friendly than rentals.
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Most people do not understand what a co-op is or how to set one up—though they like the look of John Lewis, the retailer owned by its workers, which is often cited by politicians trying to build support for co-ops.
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But now, a bunch of items are off the block: Companies and co-ops, big or small, will no longer be able to apply for money to build internet infrastructure in many of these regions, because Big Telecom says there's already internet there.
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One is New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand; she played a key role in developing and passing a 2018 law widely known as the Main Street Employee Ownership Act, which modified some government policies to make them friendlier toward co-ops and ESOP companies.
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"Co-ops are like families, and one of the areas where families disagree is how to spend money, and that happens with disregard to wealth," said Eva Talel, who heads the co-op and condominium group at the law firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan.
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Consumer demand for fresher, healthier ingredients has led to a surge in the popularity of farmers' markets and local food co-ops over the last five years, said Bonnie Riggs, a restaurant analyst at the NPD Group, a market information and advisory firm.
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"Some co-ops may only allow fixed-rate products, or they may have very tight guidelines when it comes to cash-out and maximum LTVs," he said, referring to the loan-to-value, or the percentage of the property that is mortgaged.
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Condos and co-ops under $600,0003 make up about 20 percent of all apartment sales, but they are in the highest demand and represent the tightest segment of the market, according to Jonathan J. Miller, the president of the appraisal firm Miller Samuel.
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In search of best practices, the authors of the design guidelines followed the waste trail through more than 40 buildings, from the service corridors of prewar co-ops to the triple chutes (for refuse; paper; and metal, glass and plastic) of newer towers.
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You may need to inform the board about your plans, but most co-ops would not require you to get an alteration agreement, according to Leni Morrison Cummins, a real estate lawyer in the Manhattan office of the law firm Cozen O'Connor.
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What's selling now Each week, our survey of recent residential sales in New York City and the surrounding region focuses on homes that sold around a certain price point, allowing you to compare single-family homes, condos and co-ops in different locales.
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Justice Department officials have also been speaking with the lawyers behind a lawsuit in Vermont that accuses Dairy Farmers of America of engaging in a wide range of anticompetitive practices, including striking deals with other co-ops to not poach one another's members.
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The Vermont suit alleges that Dairy Farmers of America has engaged in a wide range of anticompetitive practices over the years, striking deals with other co-ops not to poach one another's members and sharing milk-pricing information to suppress payments to farmers.
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But Mitchell told me even if the FCC is less willing to award funds to co-ops, he still expects this trend to continue, with local communities taking the same approach to the internet as they did to electricity so many years ago.
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Along with other paperwork, he provided the co-op board with a letter from the United Nations explaining that he is a political affairs officer there, not a diplomat, an occupation viewed by some co-ops as undesirable, in part because of diplomatic immunity.
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When communities or local co-ops are able to build their own internet, they can demand that net neutrality be baked in, which not only preserves access to a free and open internet but creates a market pressure on private competitors to do the same.
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"People are cannibalizing each other, to usurp a buyer from one another," said Ms. Katzen, who believes the true value of the apartment is around $625,8153 — but she listed lower in the hopes of standing out from a growing number of co-ops for sale.
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Much as with rent-regulated apartments, residents living in Mitchell-Lama co-ops have succession rights, meaning if the resident moves out or dies, a family member who has already been living in the apartment for a certain length of time could keep it.
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And the proposed alternatives to a public option, like the insurance "co-ops" eventually included in the 2010 law, did not have the bargaining power and reach that a Medicare-like plan would have (and most of them have since gone out of business).
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As co-chairs of the bipartisan Congressional Cooperative Business Caucus (CCBC), we firmly believe that there is one tool that has proven time and time again to be an effective resource in providing for economic growth for all: cooperatives, or co-ops for short.
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Both the volume of sales and the price of co-ops and condos in Manhattan fell sharply in the third quarter, thanks in large part to higher transfer-tax rates for luxury apartments that went into effect in July, according to several new market reports.
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The most stable were the so-called cooperative galleries, or co-ops, established by groups of artists who paid monthly dues to cover rent, pitched in on running the place, and made joint decisions about membership: whom to bring in, and whom to kick out.
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The median sale price for a home in Westchester, for instance, was $438,000 at the end of last year, compared with $1.050 million for co-ops and condominiums in Manhattan and $750,000 in Brooklyn, according to the appraiser Jonathan J. Miller of Miller Samuel.
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Calculator According to data from the National Association of Realtors, the number of existing homes sold in 2016 was the highest in a decade: 5.45 million single-family houses, townhouses, condominiums and co-ops were sold, up 3.8 percent from 5.25 million in 19993.
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As once rent-regulated apartments were converted into luxury rentals, condos and co-ops, middle-income residents were pushed ever farther out from the city's core into neighborhoods where affordable housing was once plentiful, putting enormous pressure on working class and poorer New Yorkers.
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The association, in a separate statement with the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, said it was working with Hoeven, Thune and Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, also a Republican, to reach "an equitable solution" that preserves benefits formerly available to co-ops under Section 199.
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Groups such as Dark Justice, Online Predator Investigation Team (OPIT), and Public Justice PHL (PJ-PHL, formerly known as Paedophile Hunters London) position themselves as the Co-ops of the crowded pedophile-hunting market, claiming to adopt a more ethical approach to extra-judicial crime-fighting.
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Despite that sort of increase in prices, the area still seems in reach for those who don't have six-figure incomes, in part because of New York's Housing Development Fund Corporation, which over the years has created a special breed of co-ops in once-derelict buildings.
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At the same time, the average sale price in the "starter market" — the bottom 10 percent of all transactions, new and existing units, condos and co-ops — hit a record high in the third quarter of $379,000, while bidding wars were erupting over studios, he said.
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New York City's antiquated method of calculating property taxes has long allowed owners of multimillion-dollar brownstones in Brooklyn and high-rise co-ops by Central Park to pay less in taxes than working-class homeowners in the South Bronx, relative to the value of their properties.
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If a rare earth cooperative proves as successful as other American co-ops, not only would it alleviate rare earth supply problems, but it could represent a template for domestic production of other critical minerals on which the United States is entirely or almost entirely import-dependent.
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"If you go back five or six years there were five or fewer electric co-ops that were doing fiber internet to businesses and residents," said Christopher Mitchell, co-author of the paper and the director of community broadband networks for ILSR, in a phone interview.
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In Manhattan's flagging real estate market, that was the median sale price of a two-bedroom apartment last quarter — an 1 percent drop from the same period last year, and the largest discount among studio to three-bedroom co-ops and condos, according to the brokerage Douglas Elliman.
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In Manhattan real estate, 2015 was a year for the record books, with the median price for co-ops and condos hitting a new high of $1.15 million in the final months of the year, according to reports by major real estate firms that will be released Tuesday.
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"The collections we drew from all work to demonstrate how utopian thinking has underwritten experimental communities throughout Southern California — and much further afield — for generations now, from health retreats and New Age co-ops to futuristic urban visions of Los Angeles itself," said co-curator and architecture writer Manaugh.
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One reason my friends and I are unwilling to even consider leaving our Brooklyn community is our ability to walk to supermarkets, banks, food co-ops, hardware stores, worship and recreational facilities, and get virtually everywhere in the city with low-cost and usually highly efficient public transportation.
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In the first three months of this year, 989 market-rate co-ops, condos and houses sold in the Bronx, up from 732 in the same period last year, for a 35 percent increase, according to data prepared by the Real Estate Board of New York, a trade association.
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While the administration says 53 million people have gained insurance through President Obama's signature health law, it has suffered setbacks: Nonprofit health insurance co-ops created by the law have shut down; major health insurers have withdrawn from its marketplaces; and the ones that remain have raised premiums sharply.
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So-called H.D.F.C. co-ops — which are reserved for those making below certain incomes, and have lower than usual maintenance fees — represent about 40 percent of the owned housing stock in Alphabet City, said Max Moondoc, an associate broker with Halstead Property and a resident of an H.D.F.C. building.
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The land became contested territory, as local housing advocates pushed the city to build apartments, while the mostly Jewish residents of nearby co-ops, backed by the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty and the former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, opposed housing in favor of retail and commercial space.
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Lower and higher on the bluff are two buildings with a total of 20 co-ops; 12 hit the market last summer, two-to-five-bedroom residences with multiple decks, open floor plans, travertine floor-to-ceiling fireplaces and master baths with free-standing tubs and separate showers.
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A generation had just emerged from the suffering of the Depression and World War II. "You just didn't see the kind of enormity you see now," Frederick Warburg Peters, a longstanding broker of Upper East Side co-ops and the chief executive of Warburg realty, mentioned to me.
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The agreement, which lawmakers have been scrambling to reach for months, aims to replicate tax benefits that were available to farmer-owned co-ops that existed before Congress passed the tax law in December 2017, according to a summary of the agreement released by Republican senators from farm states.
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A $203 million settlement was reached, but 115 farmers in the Northeast rejected the settlement and allege that DFA and its marketing arm, Dairy Marketing Services, violated the Sherman Antitrust Act and conspired to monopolize the fluid milk market by having agreements with other co-ops to keep milk prices low.
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For example, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) takes $716 billion from services to Medicare patients to pay for all six new government agencies, 23 (mostly failed) Co-Ops, bailouts for insurance companies, tens of thousands of bureaucrats, and the implementation of more than ten million words of rules and regulations.
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VIA VERDE The Bronx, 2904 Grimshaw, and Dattner Architects Via Verde has been praised for housing New Yorkers across a range of incomes, with 2200 rentals available from $211 to $276,22001 a month when it opened in 21, as well as 123 middle-income co-ops available for less than $212,22007.
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"Here in Manhattan or Brooklyn, co-ops and condos that allow dogs command a 10% to 15% increase of value," Martin Eiden, an agent at Compass, tells CNBC Make It. But when it comes to buying a new home, pet owners may not be keeping resale value front of mind.
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Big Ticket A vice chairman of the Blackstone Group, J. Tomilson Hill, and his wife, Janine Hill, paid $252,500,000 for a grand park-facing apartment at 834 Fifth Avenue, the majestic 16-story limestone building designed by Rosario Candela, where just last spring a sale set a record for city co-ops.
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"The new data suggests that 30 percent of the most-remote and hardest to serve parts of the country now have new internet service," said Jonathan Chambers, a former FCC executive who now works at Conexon, a private consulting firm that works with rural electric co-ops seeking to expand into broadband delivery.
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A tenant organizer in the Bronx who would go on to run three homeless shelters, Ms. Kerstein worked to get the city to turn the building over to its occupants; the apartments eventually became co-ops that would be owned by many of the same Dominican families who were residing in them illegally.
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At first, her heart was set on the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, but that proved to be too expensive: The median sale price for one-bedroom condos and co-ops in Prospect Heights at the end of 2100 was $9003,2900, according to data provided by Zillow, well out of her price range.
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Pieces of the history have been gathered before, most notably in Joellen Bard's "Tenth Street Days: The Co-ops of the 290's," a small 210 book about the formation of the D.I.Y and at times gonzo gallery district near Cooper Union largely built by artists banding together against commercial and critical indifference.
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Tenant: JenCap Holdings L.L.C. Tenant's Broker: Brett Maslin, Adams & Company Landlord: Empire State Realty Trust Landlord's Representatives: Lindsay Godard and Keith Cody, Empire State Realty Trust $21.95 million 450 West 31st Street (between 10th and Dyer Avenues) Manhattan Two office co-ops in Hudson Yards, each with 10,775 square feet, will be available Nov.
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And the amount needed for a down payment is especially high for New York City buyers, in part because much of the housing stock is co-ops that require at least 20 percent down, eliminating the possibility of using low down payment loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration or the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Amid a mix of Federal townhouses, former tenements and brick factories (some of them co-ops), there are modern condos like 497 Greenwich Street and 323 Renwick, soon to be joined by 565 Broome Street, a 115-unit complex designed by Renzo Piano for Bizzi & Partners Development, Aronov Development and Halpern Real Estate Ventures.
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In his move to dismantle net neutrality rules, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has made it clear he does not consider the internet a utility, which is how these co-ops are treating it, and some of them may be looking to FCC-backed grants, such as the Connect America Fund, to get up and running.
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In a renewed effort to imagine a different way, we should recall that there are already existing communal systems, like the one in Mondragón, Spain, where worker-owned co-ops interact to create an economy in which one-third of profits go to workers, one-third to capital improvements, and one-third to charities of the workers' choosing.
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Over the years, it has attracted numerous affluent and famous residents, including Bing Crosby, who was among the first of its occupants, and Laurance S. Rockefeller, a grandson of John D. Rockefeller, who moved into the penthouse and liked the building so much that he bought it outright in 1946, later converting his investment to co-ops.
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In the early 1980s, while most Upper West Siders were breathing a sigh of relief that the neighborhood's seedy, sometimes menacing single-room-occupancy hotels were being converted into co-ops, a few residents of West 87th Street worried about the fate of the hotels' tenants, particularly those in the S.R.O. on their block, the Capitol Hall.
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Single-family properties at the low end included two two-bedroom co-ops in Warwick Gardens — for residents 653 and older — listed at $100,000 and $115,000, and a two-bedroom condominium in the Madison Commons complex, listed at $153,900; at the high end was a three-bedroom townhouse in the Corinthian Cove development for $1.399 million.
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In Prospect Heights, a two-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath, duplex apartment with 13-foot ceilings and 10-foot windows, a huge living room with a storage loft, ample closet space and a washer and dryer, on the first and garden floors of a handsome terra cotta Romanesque Revival school that was converted to co-ops in 1989.
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Among the high-rises are midcentury co-ops like the 20-story Winston Churchill, at 2500 Johnson Avenue; the 25-story 555 Kappock Street; and the 23-story Blue Building, at 2400 Johnson, perhaps best known for its location near a familiar sight from the Manhattan side, a giant C, for Columbia University, painted on a nearby rock face.
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Only seven of the original 23 CO-OPs remain standing after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) was forced to punt on promised risk corridor payments, shelling out only 85033 percent of the funds the insurers were banking on to stem the losses brought by heavier regulation and a sicker market on the individual health insurance exchanges.
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And the measures needed to stabilize our climate and avoid a mass extinction event (regenerative agriculture, carbon capture, wildlife stewardship, Mondragón-style co-ops) could lead to — and would require — changes that would create a more sustainable and just civilization: equal rights for women, progressive taxes, universal basic incomes and health care, public education for all, and the return of real political representation.
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Now add the costs of the ACA's expanded bureaucracy: eleven million words in the first round of regulations in the Federal Register; consultations by Jonathan Gruber and others; six new federal agencies in an organizational chart that resembles the Los Angeles freeway system; new verification, authorization, and compliance procedures; risk corridors; failed co-ops; and tens of thousands of newly hired ACA bureaucrats.
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Starting with the co-ops listed in W. E. B. Du Bois's 1907 book Economic Cooperation Among Negro Americans, she began reconstructing a history, eventually published in her 2014 book Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice, that, before, had only been told in bits and pieces, passed down through families but rarely seen as significant.
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Many Latinos and housing activists like Ms. Goldin demanded that the city build low-income housing on what was known as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, while the predominantly Jewish residents of some nearby co-ops, backed by the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty and the former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, argued for retail or office space, instead of low-income housing.
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The development, which has 150 rental units and 70 co-ops, had opened just a few months earlier and was receiving a lot of attention for its thoughtful, sustainable design: The complex has courtyards, a large green roof planted with vegetable gardens and fruit trees, a sunny gym on a high floor, and apartments with cross-ventilation and ceiling fans to keep them cool in the summer.
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They say that, in some cases, the B.Q.E. is their only viable option to get from Point A to Point B. Tax System Favoring Central Park Co-ops and Brooklyn Brownstones Could End New York Is Urged to Consider Surge Pricing for Taxis Fotis Dulos, Accused of Killing Jennifer Dulos, Is Dead Facades on 1,400 Buildings in New York Are a Threat to Pedestrians Want more news?
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That suit alleges that D.F.A. has engaged in a wide range of anticompetitive practices: making deals with other co-ops not to poach one another's members, sharing milk-pricing information with those rivals to suppress payments to farmers, and signing restrictive supply contracts with processors like Dean Foods and Farmland that made it impossible for farmers outside the co-op to sell to those companies directly.
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The provision gives farmers a 20 percent deduction on payments for sales of crops to farmer-owned cooperatives, but not for sales to private or investor-owned grains handlers such as global firm Archer Daniels Midland Co. The modification was introduced to compensate co-ops and their farmer owners when Congress eliminated a part of the tax code, known as Section 199, which had benefited them for more than a decade.
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CleanWell's cleaning products use the naturally disinfecting properties of thyme oil and are available online through Amazon and Thrive Market, as well as at local health-food stores and co-ops around the US."For some SKUs, we had just produced enough product to get us through back to school, so we were sitting in a decent place in that respect," Lawrence said, referring to stock-keeping units.
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The provision gives farmers a 20 percent deduction on payments for sales of crops to farmer-owned cooperatives, but not for sales to private or investor-owned grains handlers such as global firm Archer Daniels Midland Co. The modification was introduced to compensate co-ops and their farmer owners when Congress eliminated a part of the tax code, known as Section 199, which had benefited them for more than a decade.
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Average cost: $150,000 Pros: You'll get more space than other alternative housing options, a large down payment isn't always needed, and monthly payments are fixed Cons: Finding an affordable option isn't easy if you're not considered low income The setups of housing co-ops can vary, but the general idea is that instead of buying a home or apartment, you buy shares, which entitle you to a partial ownership in the organization.
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What's in there: • A patch for the "grain glitch" in the recent tax overhaul that hurt corporate farms and helped farming co-ops • A pathway to funding for the New York Gateway project, something Mr. Trump has opposed • $1.6 billion, with strings attached, for a border wall with Mexico • Nothing to protect Dreamers or to shore up the Affordable Care Act Republicans like the senators Rand Paul and John Kennedy are unhappy.
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Chuck GrassleyCharles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleyGOP senators call for Barr to release full results of Epstein investigation Trump health official: Controversial drug pricing move is 'top priority' Environmental advocates should take another look at biofuels MORE (R-Iowa) suggested in committee hearings, there's little question that a solution will be crafted between farmers, co-ops and private agriculture companies; finding solutions to difficult problems is essentially the backbone of an industry that feeds the world every day.
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As you drive around the stark black-and-white map of a few of Kentucky's southern counties, a pair of text-only vignettes feature Conway visiting the shuttered offices of a local energy co-ops, which have been pushed out of business by the ubiquitous Consolidated Power Co. Now, their conference rooms walls have rotted away and filled with glowing fungus, or have been turned into encampments for those made homeless (whether by Consolidated or the then-recent subprime mortgage crisis, who could say).
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