Socially Oriented Cooperative Housing as Alternative to Housing Speculation
National housing systems increasingly combine three main types of housing: the private property sector (homeownership and private rental), social and public rental (public and non-profit sectors), and cooperative (social or civil ...Read More
The state of Housing in Europe in 2021
offers concrete policy recommendations on how to overcome substantial challenges to decent, sustainable, inclusive, affordable housing.Read More
Zambia’s Rural Housing and Enhanced Youth Skills Development
Community-led initiatives in Zambia have shown success, like in Lumwana, where a group of youth was trained on block moulding to build a house. Read More
Civic Forum on Housing and Habitat Zambia (CFHHZ)
Housing inequalities have continued to rise both in urban and rural areas of Zambia. If the country does not change its practices it is estimated there will be a deficit of 3.3 million homes by 2030. Read More
Zambia National Housing Policy Paving the Way for Cooperatives
Last year, the Zambian Government launched the 2020 National Housing Policy. The policy further recognizes housing cooperatives and community-led housing initiatives as an avenue to deliver affordable and adequate housing. Read More
The Origins of Minsnail Housing Co-op in South Korea
Minsnail Housing Co-op started as Minsnail Union, in 2011, as a student housing civil organization in Seoul, South Korea that sought to create more dormitories in universities.Read More
Social, affordable and co-operative housing in Europe – Case studies from Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Denmark
The Housing Agency of Ireland compiled 44 case studies from Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Denmark. The case studies respond to the various challenges of providing adequate housing. The report includes public projects led by government or city authorities, mixed-tenure private developments, and collective schemes led by residents. Like Ireland, all the selected countries have an established tradition of providing housing that is not purely market-oriented to meet a portion of their housing need.Read More
Blueprint for a Cooperative Decade – A Cooperative Housing Perspective
The Blueprint for a Co-operative Decade is a worldwide campaign to “take the cooperative way of doing business to a new level”. The five key elements of the Blueprint are participation, sustainability, identity, legal frameworks and capital. The Blueprint is particularly relevant to cooperative housing and the Blueprint interpretation for cooperative housing explains how.Read More
Community Land Trusts And Limited Equity Cooperatives: A Marriage Of Affordable Homeownership Models?
Since 2008, many have questioned the efficacy of conventional homeownership, particularly for low-income households. Advocates champion shared equity homeownership as an alternative, including community land trus ...Read More