Cooperative Village Archived Website, Mar 28, 2012 - ongoing

Cooperative Village is a community of housing cooperatives on the Lower East Side of Manhattan sponsored, organized and built by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, as well as the United Housing Foundation, a development organization set up by the unions in 1951. The Cooperative Village manages four smaller corporations, Hillman Housing Corporation, East River Housing Corporation, Seward Park Housing Corporation, and the Amalgamated Dwellings. The cooperatives followed strict Rochdale Principles, with one vote per member. The website contains information on cooperative services and the corporation.