Markets/en/Portal:Coop Housing/Contract-Base:Coop Housing

💡 In simple words: A coop housing contract is like a set of promises that people make when they live together in a shared home. This page explains what those promises are and how people agree to follow them.

🎯 In 20 seconds (scientific summary): We are heading towards formalized cooperative housing frameworks that integrate binding contractual clauses with embedded cultural norms and reference documentation. This hypothesis proposes that effective coop housing governance emerges through layered contractual instruments combining explicit commitments, shared interpretive practices, and modular annexes, suggesting a shift from rigid standardized contracts toward adaptive, context-sensitive agreement structures.

This is a draft page, under construction. Status: initial hypothesis, proposed as a base for discussion. It is intended to host the base contract of the Coop Housing portal. This element of the portal structure is explained on the Portal Structure Model page (section "2. Base contract").

Coop Housing: base contract

Under construction. The base contract is the foundation of the portal. It is intended to carry the preamble, the numbered clauses, the culture that goes with the clauses, the reference documents and the annexes.

Use this model. Users can copy a neutral contract model and then start editing their own copy freely: the original model page stays intact. MediaWiki offers a native way to do this: open an address of the form https://wikideal.net/w/index.php?title=TITLE-OF-YOUR-COPY&action=edit&preload=Markets/en/Portal:Coop_Housing/Contract-Base:Coop_Housing. Replace TITLE-OF-YOUR-COPY with the exact title of the new page you want to create; a clear, specific title (for example the type of deal and a date) makes the copy easy to find later. The preload value must be the exact title of the model page to copy, for example Markets/en/Portal:Babysitting/Contract-Model:Babysitting; on a model page, this box already shows that page's title. The editor then opens pre-filled with the model, ready to be adapted. When copying a model, you also need to determine in which portal your contract belongs (transportation, housing, personal services, and so on); the categories for this classification remain to be created and are part of the questions of the open call on URL naming and structure.

Preamble

To be defined: why this contract exists and in which spirit it is meant to be used.

Clauses

To be defined: the numbered commitments of the parties.

Culture of the clauses

To be defined: the shared understanding and practices that give each clause its meaning in real situations.

Reference documents and annexes

To be defined: the texts the contract relies on or points to, and the annexes (schedules, inventories, technical descriptions, price lists).

See also

• Coop Housing portal: Main page (rules of the game)
• Portal Structure Model: 2. Base contract

Portal structure (model)

This page is part of the standard structure of the Coop Housing portal. Each market portal offers the same set of content types, even when some are still empty:

📋 Portal structure: how this market portal works · full model
Rules of the game	Portal Main, the governing conventions for this portal
Base contract	Contract Base, the foundation contract and its clause cultures
Models	Contract Model(s), concrete models built on the base
Amendments	Base Amendment · Model Amendment
Addenda (avenants)	Base Addendum · Model Addendum
Lawyer-validated	Contract Validated, contracts validated by lawyers
Legal references	Legal Reference, by country and language
Compensation	Compensation, Conditions · Pricing & Scales · Karma tokens
Use cases	Use cases, real pilot examples
Alerts & prevention	Alerts & prevention, alerts, risks and common errors together
Statistics	Statistics, usage statistics and common error statistics
Signature	Signature, signature management, see the open call on contract signature
Tutorials	Tutorials · FAQ
Debates	Debates (Talk)

Some sections may still be empty: they are listed so the structure is available and ready to fill. Each element is explained on the Portal Structure Model page.