International Legal Research and Analysis Initiative
We’re excited to announce on this special day that ICA and CHI are partnering on the International Legal Research and Analysis Initiative (ILRAI) to gather information on cooperative housing law. Housing cooperatives require specific regulations to ensure fair competition with other businesses. Without proper legal frameworks, cooperatives may face challenges, while supportive regulations can encourage growth and innovation.Read More
Mike Duru Receives Prestigious International Cooperative Champion Award by the OCDC
We are pleased to announce that Mike Duru, the President the Zimbabwe National Association of Housing Co-operatives (ZINAHCO) and a valued board member of CHI, has been honoured with the prestigious International Cooperative Champ ...Read More
Melina Morrison, CEO of Australia’s BCCM Calls for More Housing Cooperatives on Sky News Australia
The need for cooperative housing in Australia is on the rise as a solution to the country's rental crisis. Melina Morrison, the CEO of BCCM, is urging the Federal Government to allocate a more significant role for cooperative housing in their proposed $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund, which aims to build 30,000 new social and affordable properties.Read More
HSB in Sweden Celebrates 100 Years
HSB, one of CHI's three members in Sweden, turns 100 years old this year. Congratulations! Johan Nyhus, HSB's chairman, and CHI board member, offered the following reflections on the centenary celebrations: "Together we can make a difference. That is what history has taught us, from the 1920s when the severe living conditions with overcrowding and housing shortages formed the idea: what if people got together and built their own houses? Houses and homes of a much higher standard than what was common at that time.Read More
Welcome BCCM: CHI’s Newest Member
We are pleased to announce that Australia's Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals (BCCM) is the newest addition to CHI's membership. As the Australian government is increasing its interest in solving housing issues in Australia the BCCM wants to ensure that housing cooperatives are a significant part of that solution. Read More
£1.2 Million UK Funding will Boost Energy Efficiency in Cooperative Housing
The Confederation of Co-operative Housing (CCH) in the UK was successful in its Consortium bid to the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero’s Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF). The fund will boost energy efficiency in the social housing stock across the country.Read More
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