Written for the 2015 Austin Co-op Summit, this new paper from the Democracy at Work Institute highlights how the city governments of New York City, Minneapolis, and Madison, Wisconsin are supporting cooperative development. These cities are offering cooperatives technical assistance and are experimenting with loan funds to increase co-ops’ access to start- up capital as well as to fund co-op conversions and the creation of unionized worker cooperatives. The report notes lack of stable financing and limited technical assistance providers as some of the main challenges for cooperative development.