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Hello,
it's
Bloomington,
Mayor,
John,
Hamilton,
again
glad
to
be
with
you
and
I'm
with
a
guest
today
with
Hugh
Farrell
from
Bloomington
Cooperative
living
Hugh.
Thank
you
for
being
here
thanks
for
having
me
we
we
wanted
to
talk
today.
This
is
about
affordable
housing
in
Bloomington
and
one
of
the
really
cool
entities,
organizations
that
does
that
is
Bloomington,
Cooperative
living
so
Hugh.
Why
don't
you
just
tell
us
a
little
bit
about
what
BCL
or
building
Cooperative
living
is
yeah.
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So
Bloomington
Cooperative
living
is
affordable,
housing
project,
it's
democratically
controlled
by
its
residents,
who
are
its
members,
and
it's
been
around
for
about
15
years,
and
our
goal
is
to
create
super,
affordable
housing
permanently,
and
so,
basically,
all
of
our
rooms
are
not
rented
out
per
se.
It's
a
membership
agreement
that
you
belong,
you
belong,
and
that
gives
you
not
just
residency
but
voting
rights
and
that
the
rooms
basically
work
out
to
being
about
550
a
month,
but
that
includes
both
utility
and
a
Cooperative
Food
purchase.
So
we
end
up
with
a
real
rent
cost.
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It's
it's
a
great
story.
It
actually
in
the
financing,
came
from
the
cdfi
friendly
Bloomington,
which
is
a
whole
other
complicated
story
which
we
won't
get
into,
but
yeah
that
bringing
all
the
finance
together
and
that's
what
21
bedrooms.
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On
9th
Street
right,
yes,
so
that's
right
across
from
Reverend
Butler
Park
my
street
park,
and
you
know
for
us
that
was
a
really
important
exercise
in
partnership
with
the
neighborhood,
we
were
able
to
work
with
a
range
of
folks
from
around
the
neighborhood,
as
well
as
the
cdfi
friendly
in
the
city.
In
order
to
make
that
happen,
and
basically
it
was
a
house
that
really
was
at
risk
of
not
being
able
to
be
renovated.
It
didn't
fit
within.
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B
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B
And
so
we
were
able
to
convert
it
to
18
bedrooms
for
us
that
represented
a
couple
different
experiments.
We
installed
two
kitchens
one
on
each
floor:
okay,
and
so
that
was
an
effort
to
give
residents
more
flexibility,
but
we
also
started
experimenting
with
Suites,
because
our
model
is
based
in
a
Cooperative
housing
movement
that
you
know
has
both
been
residential
co-ops
and
you
know
that
are
famously
presentations.
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B
B
Saving
that
happens
when
you
live
cooperatively,
you
have
a
shared
kitchen,
you
have
shared
maintenance,
you
benefit
from
sort
of
all
the
sets
of
connections
and
Democratic
decision
making
that's
happening,
but
you
have
a
little
bit
more
private
space
yeah
and
it
doesn't
look
anything
in
that
way.
Like
a
dorm,
and
so
you
know
already
I
think
you
know,
our
membership
procedures
have
been
able
to
pull
in
more
and
more
folks
from
the
community
over
the
past
seven
years.
But
the
Suites
have
I
think
better
real
success.
I
didn't
I.
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Didn't
even
know
you
had
sweets
there,
that's
awesome
and
look.
This
is
this
is
what
you're
doing
and
I
know.
We've
been
working
with
you
on
a
third
site
now
at
West
Kirkwood
and
we've
we're
also
trying
to
help
just
the
organization
strengthen
and
grow
and
I'm
so
proud
of
what
you're
doing
I
think
it's
an
awesome
expansion
of
opportunity
in
Bloomington
for
affordable
housing.
It's
a
model!
That's
really
important!
Congratulations
to
you
and
what
you
all
are
doing.
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I
know:
there'll,
be
more
information
on
the
screen
about
those
organizations
and
Bloomington
and
Hugh
your
board
member
I.
Guess
right
that
helps
steer
all
this
and
with
the
members.
We
love
the
partnership.
Thank
you
so
much
and
we
we
you
can
get
more
information
about
it.
It's
a
great
example
of
Bloomington
moving
into
the
into
the
future
with
permanently
affordable,
really
affordable
ways
to
live
right
in
downtown
awesome
thanks
a
lot.