community ownership
Group holds title
Community ownership is a model in which property, resources, or enterprises are collectively owned and managed by a group rather than by individuals or corporations.
The community might be a neighborhood, town, or cooperative membership.
Community ownership appears in contexts like land trusts, renewable energy projects, and local businesses: The solar farm operates under community ownership.
The arrangement aims to keep benefits local and decisions democratic.
- shared spacesAreas used collectively
- village commonsShared public land
- cooperativesMember-owned collective enterprises
- worker co-opBusiness owned by employees
- credit unionsMember-owned financial cooperatives
mutual aid societies · barn raising · sweat equity · town hall meetings · crowdfunding platforms · advisory councils · storytelling circles · collective bargaining · public forums · oral traditions · neighborhood associations · neighborhood watch · grassroots movements · block party · recycling programs · heritage sites · wildlife preserves · cultural festivals
- shared ownershipco-op, cooperative, joint tenancy, pooled resources, shared resources
- distributismsubsidiarity, private property, small enterprise, family business, smallholding
- socialismMarxism, proletariat, bourgeoisie, means of production, collectivism
- cooperativesco-op, credit union, worker co-op, housing co-op, co-ops
- green politicsgreen politics, green parties, green movement, climate justice, environmental justice
- anarchismanarchy, anarchism, Emma Goldman, Goldman, mutualism
community ownershipprivate ownership
Individual control of assets
private property · individual ownership · sole proprietorship · corporate ownership · private enterprise
community ownershipprivatization
State sells public assets
capitalism · enclosure · free market economy · laissez-faire · private enterprise
community, ownership, commune, communal, communally, communion, communism, communist, communicate