The self-destructive path of the Puerto Rican housing cooperativism: the problem of the loss of the cooperative identity through the transformation of use values into exchange values

  • Rubén Colón Morales Universidad de Puerto Rico
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18543/baidc-52-2018pp19-46
Keywords: housing cooperatives, common property cooperatives, use value, exchange value, individual property housing cooperatives

Abstract

This article examines the development of the common property housing cooperatives model in Puerto Rico, and discusses how the cooperative movement promoted a public policy for the transformation of such into a regime based on the individual ownership of the housing units by the cooperative members. By doing that, Puerto Rican cooperative movement started a pathway that is contradictory with the cooperative principles and identity of such housing property regime. As consequence, it is foreseen that the successful housing cooperative system developed in the country during the last five decades is deemed to disappear.

Received: 5 March 2018
Accepted: 17 April 2018
Published online: 24 July 2018

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2018-07-24
How to Cite
Morales, Rubén Colón. 2018. “The Self-Destructive Path of the Puerto Rican Housing Cooperativism: The Problem of the Loss of the Cooperative Identity through the Transformation of Use Values into Exchange Values”. International Association of Cooperative Law Journal, no. 52 (July), 19-46. https://doi.org/10.18543/baidc-52-2018pp19-46.
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