The International Cooperative Housing Symposium in Zurich – September 22, 23, 2022
Under the slogan “Growing the Movement”, 15 speakers discussed the future of cooperative housing with over 100 participants attending. The following day we visited two recent developments (Fogo and Zollhaus) and one longstanding classic housing cooperative (Ottostrasse).Read More
Rosie Moore, Peterborough Housing Co-op, New Zealand – Coop Conversations
This podcast features various guests from around the world who are currently living or working in housing cooperatives . You'll discover more about what it's like to live in a housing cooperative through these conversations. We've ...Read More
Parallel Session on Affordable Housing and Energy – ICA Congress in Seoul, Korea – Dec 2021
On the final day of the World Cooperative Congress delegates in a parallel session heard about affordable housing and energy. Providing clean renewable energy as part of affordable housing is therefore even more important and each of the speakers outlined how their coops were meeting this challenge.Read More
Leveraging Cooperative Housing Assets for Future Generations Webinar
Cooperatives have a unique ability to leverage their assets for the benefit of current and future members and their communities. Join us to hear about a variety of cooperative models that manage assets for the goal of increasing access to cooperative housing.Read More
Loss of a Cooperator: Mr. Mohammad Sharif Bhaiji
It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Mr. Mohammad Sharif Bhaiji of COVID-19 in Karachi, Pakistan. M. Sharif Bhaiji was managing director of Karachi Cooperative Housing Societies Union, which helps with the establishment of hospitals, schools, rehabilitation centres and recreation parks. He was also the Director of Kokan Cooperative Housing.Read More
CHI Launching Podcast
We are very excited to be launching a podcast series about cooperative housing living. We named it Coop Conversations as this best describes the essence of this podcast series.Read More
Coop Conversations Podcast Launch
We are excited to launch a podcast series about living in cooperative housing. By listening to conversations we’ve had with different people of all ages from countries like Canada, Ireland, France, the USA and Switzerland, you will learn more about co-op living and why housing co-ops are such wonderfully unique places to live.Read More
Student Housing Cooperatives – An International Perspective
A 2019 National Student Accommodation Survey in the UK revealed that 90% of students experience issues with their housing - mostly due to it not being maintained to a decent standard of living.Read More
Palo Alto, Mexico – an Inspiring Story, a Mission to Preserve
Palo Alto is home to 2,500 residents living in a housing cooperative in a working-class neighbourhood in Mexico City. It's wedged between highways, luxury shopping malls and skyscrapers. A colleague visited the coop in late 2019 and shared this report with us. Read More