Their back yard, your hens?

Anyone renting and can't have a coop? You might consider contacting the garden sharing groups for people who own a back yard and can't/don't want to maintain it and offer to share it with gardeners. You could try the community gardens, but they can be a bit isolated at night and your hens would be more vulnerable to animal and human predation. The big sell would be free chicken manure and a compost shredding service. My hens are big help with shredding weeds for the compost-used to be such a pain. Now I throw all the weeds to the girls and rake it up along with the wonderful chicken poop once a week and it goes into the compost. The worms in my compost heap are like a Hitchcock film! Downside would be you might not have good control on what got fed to your hens. My own would be fine-they're picky. I think if you rent and you can't keep hens communal chicken coops may be the way forward.