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Rosie Moore, Peterborough Housing Co-op, New Zealand – Coop Conversations

This podcast features various guests from around the world who are currently living or working in housing cooperatives . You'll discover more about what it's like to live in a housing cooperative through these conversations. We've ...Read More

This Week in the News – February 7th, 2022

Here are the top stories for the week of February 7th, 2022.   The Forgotten Answer to the Affordable Housing Crisis (USA) Amid rising rents and an increasingly competitive housing market, the C Street Co-op in Eugene, Oregon, US ...Read More

This Week in the News – January 31st, 2022

Here are the top stories for the week of January 31st, 2022.   30 years and still standing: The University of Sydney’s Stucco Housing Cooperative (Australia) The conventional history of Stucco begins with the trite tale of an a ...Read More

This Week in the News – January 24th, 2022

Here are the top stories for the week of January 24th, 2022.   Coop Conversations - Ana Džokić, MOBA Housing SCE (Podcast) This episode of Coop Conversations is with Ana Džokić, an architect with over 20 years of experience p ...Read More

This Week in the News – January 17th, 2022

Here are the top stories for the week of January 17th, 2022. Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On (Austria) Based on six milestones of self-organized and self-managed housing projects in Austria, this 76-minute documentary explores a ...Read More

ICA World Cooperative Congress – Deepening our Cooperative Identity – December 1-3, 2021

The 33rd World Cooperative Congress will enable the cooperative movement to explore its identity to build a more secure future. Using the current global crisis as a framework, discussions will aim to deepen the cooperative identit ...Read More

Community-Led Housing in the Spotlight

Click here to check out the series of videos about Community-Led Housing!           This virtual workshop was coordinated by urbaMonde, World Habitat and Cooperative Housing International, to replace the regional Community Le ...Read More

This Week in the News – October 10th, 2021

Here are the top stories for the week of October 10th, 2021.   Burnaby Co-op Residents Fear Displacement Amid Looming Property Sale (Canada) For nine years, retiree Duncan Beaton has gotten to know his neighbours in the Cardston ...Read More

This Week in the News – October 3rd, 2021

Here are the top stories for the week of October 3rd, 2021.   #UrbanOctober The latest CoHabitat Network newsletter is out with a focus on #UrbanOctober. This campaign aims to spread the word about community-led housing initiativ ...Read More