First Senior Housing Coop in Barcelona is a Model of Coexistence for Aging
The coop is aimed at over 50s and will have 26 homes built on public land (also a first!) The group has worked and debated on how it wants to live since 2015 and is clear that growing old in solitude is not in the cards. The coop will feature community spaces such as a kitchen to be shared between 4 or 5 homes, an urban garden and a treatment and physiotherapy room.Read More
Cooperativa Palo Alto: the first housing cooperative in Mexico City that is still working to protect its community 50 years later
This article is about a housing cooperative in Palo Alto, Mexico City that was founded nearly 50 years ago on the outskirts of the city in a former sand pit. Now the cooperative sits among tall office and apartment towers in an exclusive district called Bosques de las Lomas.Read More
Funding Opportunities to Boost Cooperative Housing Development in Australia
Congratulation to Kyloring Co-operative Housing, located within the Witchcliffe Ecovillage, in Witchcliffe, Western Australia, for receiving $2.9 million to provide eight dwellings under the government's Social Housing Economic Recovery Package (SHERP). Rounds 1 and 2 of the SHERP Grants Program are set to deliver more than 320 new social housing dwellings across Western Australia.Read More
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