Successful housing cooperatives typically share common key operating practices and philosophies. These include a need to understand some basic cooperative concepts, such as the joint ownership and user-owner nature of the cooperative business form, as well as at-cost operation and democratic control processes.
Comparing Nonprofit and Cooperative Entities 
Young Lambeth Cooperative – Business Plan 
The Nature of the Cooperative 
MHDC Developers Guide 
Development Manual for Home Cooperatives 
Cooperatives Theory Principles and Practice 
Cooperatives Principles and Practices in the 21st Century 
Cooperatives and the Sustainable Development Goals 
Cooperatives and the Millennium Development Goals 
Conceptual Framework- Measurement of Cooperatives and its Operationalization