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
Member Forum May 17, 2023 9:00 EDST (15:00 CEST)
Member Forums are an opportunity to learn and share innovations and best practices within the cooperative housing sector. Guests include Tim Ross, Executive Director of the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada; Linda Seaborn, Senior Policy Advisor with the Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals in Australia; and Tom Ivey, Community Development Manager with DotCoop Enterprises. 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
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