Newsletters

Welcome to the Cooperative Housing International newsletter archive—a curated collection of past editions highlighting news, insights, and developments from the global cooperative housing movement. Here you’ll find stories from around the world, updates on policy and financing, and examples of how co-ops are meeting today’s housing challenges. Explore the issues below—and don’t forget to subscribe at the bottom of the page to receive future newsletters directly in your inbox.

Autumn 2023 News From CHI

In this edition we announce CHI's General Assembly and Board Meeting in October. We also provide a summary on a CHI Member Forum held in May. Listen to housing experts from Canada and UK delve into the advantages and disadvantages of housing cooperatives on leased land in our latest Coop Conversations podcast episode. Read about the International Social Housing Festival in Barcelona in June where housing providers, policymakers and housing advocates from 82 different countries discussed housing challenges and solutions.Read More

Spring 2023

News updates on HSB in Sweden celebrating 100 years; the Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals (BCCM) is the newest addition to CHI's membership; we talk to Multipro Cooperative from Nicaragua in our latest podcast; CHI attending the International Social Housing Festival in Barcelona in June.Read More

Fall 2022

Read about the International Cooperative Housing Symposium in Zurich, a conference for student housing cooperatives in Zurich and Geneva, the African Cooperative Housing Training Program and more...Read More

Summer 2022

Read about the International Cooperative Housing Symposium in Zurich, the new CHI board members elected in Sevilla, Spain, research from Austria on the "Economic Impacts of Limited-Profit Housing Associations", the International Social Housing Festival in Helsinki and the 4th International Conference for Cooperative Housing in Egypt.Read More

December 2022

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

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

Cooperative Housing International 2020 Highlights

In spite of the challenges and hardships of 2020, housing cooperatives all around the world keep inspiring us with their stories of resilience and community spirit.Read More

Asia Pacific Edition – February 2021

Read about Asia Pacific Regional Forum on Cooperative Housing, a women-managed coop in Australia and a 1 million housing project in the Philippines.Read More

December 2016

Read about the conferences we attended, membership news and our new website.Read More

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