MOBA Network
MOBA is a network that meets regularly to build the necessary pool of expertise, capacities and financial instruments to launch cooperative housing pilot projects in the central eastern European region.Read More
How Scottish Housing Coops Build Communities
A Scottish study, published in 2019, contains case studies demonstrating how housing co-ops in Glasgow and Edinburgh have delivered benefits for Scottish communities and calls on the Scottish government to encourage more of them. The sector is still very limited, with just 11 registered and several more unregistered housing co-ops in Scotland, compared with 685 across the UK.Read More
Rochdale Pioneers and the Coop Principles
This essay does not pretend to be a work of original research or even of comprehensive synthesis and interpretation. It does aim to pull together selected points of view about Rochdale to give readers a convenient point of entry into some complex issues.Read More
Co-op City, the world’s largest housing cooperative in the Bronx
This video by CityLab tells the story of Co-op City, the world's largest housing cooperative in the Bronx, New York. Co-op City is a limited-equity coop, owned and governed by its residents. Member residents don't profit from the ...Read More
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Report: New Models for Co-operative Housing
This report was commissioned so that the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) could have a better understanding of how co-operative housing models operate in other countries and also to look at possible “best pract ...Read More
Multi-Tenure Developments: Best Practice Approaches to Design, Development and Management
This report on best practices for multi-tenure developments is based on extensive research and looks at bringing together social, affordable and private housing in multi-tenure developments that deliver vibrant communities that wo ...Read More
The Co-operative Housing Sector in Angola
Angola’s National Urbanism and Housing Programme (PNHU) identified Cooperative Housing as one of the four key strategies adopted to meet the country’s deficit of more than one million dwelling units. The PNHU set a target for ...Read More
Co-operative Housing in Estonia
Presentation about Estonian Union of Housing Cooperatives EKÜL by Andres Jaadla, Founder and Chairman of the board - and Member of the board of Housing Europe. The Estonian Union of Co-operative Housing Associ ...Read More
Co-op Housing: What It Is and How It Works
This article is a few years old but it explains really well what co-operative housing is all about and how it differs from low-income housing or social housing in Canada. Unlike privately owned low-income housing or City-run “ ...Read More