Remembering Gregory J. Carlson
The cooperative movement has lost a great champion of housing cooperatives in the United States. Gregory Carlson was a long-time board member of the National Association of Housing Cooperatives (NAHC) as well as the founder and leader of the Registered Cooperative Manager program. Greg passed away peacefully on Wednesday, January 26, 2023.Read More
CHI member Sostre Cívic receives the Social Innovation Award from the European Innovation Council
Sostre Civic, an umbrella organization that supports cooperative housing groups in Catalonia, Spain, received the Social Innovation Award from the European Commission and the European Innovation Council and the Executive Agency for SMEs (EISMEA). The jury recognized the social and ecological transformation of the grant-of-use model that Sostre Civic uses to develop cooperative communities.Read More
Coop News’ Year End Q&A with CHI Secretary General
Read Coop News' Year End Q&A with CHI's Julie LaPalme who talks about 2022's cooperative housing highlights and hopes for 2023.Read More
Dutch Parliament Adopts Motions Favourable to Cooperative Housing
Significant lobbying efforts recently resulted in a favorable amendment and some motions from the House of Representatives in the Netherlands. In a unanimous decision, the Dutch House of Representatives voted in favour of two important motions in late November.Read More
New UK National Program to Help Residents Engage Effectively with Landlords
Confederation of Co-operative Housing (CCH), and Public Participation Consultation and Research (PPCR), received a £500,000 grant to roll out a new training package open to anyone living in social housing in England. Residents living in social housing will learn how to take an active role in the management of their homes. Read More
Rooftops Canada Launches the Women’s Spaces Program in four African Countries
Rooftops Canada, the international development program of cooperative and social housing organizations in Canada, recently launched its Women's Spaces project. This initiative aims to secure equal access to land and livelihoods for women in Angola, Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa.Read More
Geneva Student Cooperative Housing Site Visits
Student housing cooperatives got together in Zurich and Geneva to learn more about housing cooperatives as viable housing solutions. Participants visited student housing coops in Geneva where they saw and learned how local governments, ethical finance, universities, and other actors are working together to continually develop student housing coops.Read More
Student Housing Cooperatives Unite in Europe
Cooperators from Europe, America, and Japan assembled in Zurich and Geneva in late September to learn more about the cooperative housing model as it applies to students. The weekend was a combination of sharing knowledge and best practices, discussing a future European-wide association for student housing cooperatives as well as some site visits in Geneva.Read More
First African Cooperative Housing Training Program
The First African Cooperative Housing Training Program was held in New Cairo during the fourth International Conference of Cooperative Housing hosted by the General Authority for Construction and Housing Cooperatives (CHC) from October 16 to 19.Read More