
Year-End News From CHI
UK Government Grants £500,000 to the Confederation of Co-operative Housing The Confederation of Co-operative Housing (CCH) and its partner organization, Public Participation Consultation and Research (PPCR), is rolling out a ne ...Read More


Summer 2022
International Cooperative Housing Symposium – Zurich Cooperative housing in Zurich has long been a model for other countries with researchers and housing practitioners often looking to Zurich for best practices in participatory ...Read More

Podcast with Maxime Zaït in Belgium, Board Meeting and Plenary, and more Events – May 2022
Coop Conversations In Brussels, there are more than six million square meters of empty space, and meanwhile, thousands of people are looking for decent and affordable space to live or to set up initiatives. Maxime Zaït is a lawye ...Read More

Podcast with Ander Zabala Gomez in Catalonia, Spain, Energy Cooperatives, and more – April 2022
Coop Conversations Check out our latest podcast episode featuring Ander Zabala Gomez from Sostre Civic in Catalonia, Spain. Ander talks about the right of use model being used by housing cooperatives in Barcelona and beyond. He a ...Read More

Parallel Session: Housing and Energy Cooperatives ICA Congress Dec 2021
On the final day of the World Cooperative Congress delegates in a parallel session heard about affordable housing and energy. The session started by stating that the world was facing a global climate crisis and we were close to th ...Read More

Podcast with Rosie Moore in New Zealand & Vision 4 Housing in Kenya – February 2022
Coop Conversations Since launching our podcast series about life in a housing cooperative we have talked to co-op members from Ireland, Switzerland, the USA, Canada, Serbia, South Korea, and in this latest episode we talk to Rosie ...Read More

Essays on Growing up in a Housing Co-op – May 2021
Coop Conversations Since launching our podcast series about life in a housing cooperative we have talked to co-op members from Ireland, Switzerland, the USA, and in this latest episode we talk to Fariha, Fatima, Zaid, and Juju, fo ...Read More

Brenda Torpy & CLTs plus Minsnail Housing Co-op in Seoul – April 2021
Coop Conversations Podcast CHI just launched a podcast called Coop Conversations which is a series of interviews with people living in cooperative housing around the world. Housing co-ops are not like other types of housing. Be ...Read More