L'Echappée: manual, vision and statutes

[alberto]

@Lee

In Okelaar and La Ferme de Lizée they opted for a cooperative, in both cases - if my understanding is correct

Not quite. If memory serves, in De Okelaar they have both a cooperative and a co-propriété:

@alberto

it is incorporated according to a complex model, a key part of which is a social cooperative.

But, as I remember it, the cooperative is there as infrastructure for the economic activities of De Okelaar (as yet not very developed), but it does not own the real estate. Also, it helped to attract financial support when the project got into trouble:

@alberto

50K came from investors that wanted to support the project (“family, friends and fools”). The cooperative came in handy, as it can promise a return on that investment.