Cooper Square Mutual Housing Association II HDFC

Cooper Square Mutual Housing Association II HDFC (CSMHA II) is a nationally recognized low-income housing cooperative and community organization formed in 1995 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Our mission is to manage and preserve a co-op of 21 buildings so that they are permanently affordable to low-income residents, under principles of economic and social justice embodied in our community’s history. CSMHA II is the product of local residents organizing against their own displacement and governance of the co-op by local residents remains a central dynamic in our organization. The CSMHA II also acts as managing agent to several other buildings outside of the CSMHA II co-op. All together, the organization is responsible for maintaining over 400 units of affordable housing.