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Housing cooperative in Hull

Here's what looks like another successful cooperative to add to the list - small but impactful in areas well outside its original housing remit.

See - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/26/giroscope-housing-cooperative-1980s-hull-thatcher

One of its founders who is still there, Martin Newman, illuminates a failure implicit in modern politics - that Government policies change too often - saying:

“You just can’t rock up and tackle deep-seated issues involving people – jobs, debt advice, health, social problems – in a few years. That’s where government schemes have failed. You’ve got to be in it for the long term.”

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