Cooperatives

Cooperatives, also known as co-ops, are organizations that are owned by their members and are operated democratically. Co-ops in San Francisco are listed below.

• Million Fishes Arts Collective
  

• Purple Rose Collective
  

• Soma Heron Collective

• Other Avenues
  

• Rainbow Grocery
  

• Woodshanti
  

• Red Vic Movie House
  

• Yellow Cab Cooperative
  

• Modern Times Bookstore
  

• Arizmendi Bakery

Cohousing, another form of cooperative housing, involves some individual ownership along with commonly held property that is used for community meals, gardening and play space, spa/saunas, and other mutually satisfying purposes.

• Hidden Creek Cohousing - Oakland
  

• Mariposa Grove Community - Oakland
  

• North Oakland Cohousing - Oakland
  

• San Mateo Ecovillage - San Mateo
  

• Triple Point Cohousing - Oakland
  

• Swan's Market Cohousing - Oakland

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• The San Francisco Bay Area Cooperative Housing Directory (a wiki!) can be found here.
  

• The Network of Bay Area Workers Cooperatives (NoBAWC) is an organization that supports the efforts of cooperatives in the Bay Area. Its website contains a list of nearby worker co-ops.
  

• East Bay Cohousing provides outreach, community, and education to groups interested in creating cohousing in the Urban East Bay. See its website for details.