Cooperative Housing International 2020 Highlights
Challenges and Opportunities The year 2020 has been a very busy and constructive year. We are a very small team but we manage to accomplish so many goals, both planned and unplanned! CHI’s board members are phenomenal and their ...Read More
CHI is Launching the Coop Conversations Podcast
Our mission is to unite, represent, and lead the international movement for cooperative and mutual self-help housing. Housing co-ops are not like other forms of housing. They are unique communities that are shaped by the people wh ...Read More
Asia Pacific Edition – February 2021
Asia Pacific Regional Forum on Cooperative Housing This forum will serve as a virtual regional forum for cooperative housing organisations in the Asia Pacific region. This networking and information exchange aims to strengthen the ...Read More
Swedish Cooperatives
CHI’s Secretary-General, Julie LaPalme, was in Stockholm, Sweden, in February 2020 where she met with two of CHI’s largest members, HSB and Riksbyggen. Both are large cooperatives offering cooperative homes for sale and for re ...Read More
Cooperative Housing International – 2018 in Review
2018 was a busy year for CHI, involving many partnerships with various housing partners throughout the world. The first collaboration was in June with Housing Europe where we held our spring board meeting in conjunction with the ...Read More
April 2018 – Trailblazing Women in Housing Cooperatives
For centuries women have been fighting for housing rights and many have turned to the cooperative model to provide security of tenure, affordability, and opportunities for member involvement. In this issue, we are featuring trailb ...Read More
December 2017
At its Plenary at the ICA congress in Kuala Lumpur in November, the following board members were acclaimed: Anders Lago from HSB, Sweden as President; Guido Schwarzendahl from GdW, Germany as Vice-President; Blase Lambert from CCH ...Read More
The Year in Co-operative Housing: 2015
We gained new members this year from Malaysia, Uruguay and the United States and we welcomed new members to the CHI board of directors from Ireland, the UK and Malaysia. This summer, the CHI board had the pleasure of meeting our c ...Read More