CHI Launching Podcast
We are very excited to be launching a podcast series about cooperative housing living. We named it Coop Conversations as this best describes the essence of this podcast series.Read More
Coop Conversations Podcast Launch
We are excited to launch a podcast series about living in cooperative housing. By listening to conversations we’ve had with different people of all ages from countries like Canada, Ireland, France, the USA and Switzerland, you will learn more about co-op living and why housing co-ops are such wonderfully unique places to live.Read More
Student Housing Cooperatives – An International Perspective
A 2019 National Student Accommodation Survey in the UK revealed that 90% of students experience issues with their housing - mostly due to it not being maintained to a decent standard of living.Read More
Palo Alto, Mexico – an Inspiring Story, a Mission to Preserve
Palo Alto is home to 2,500 residents living in a housing cooperative in a working-class neighbourhood in Mexico City. It's wedged between highways, luxury shopping malls and skyscrapers. A colleague visited the coop in late 2019 and shared this report with us. Read More
Webinars on How to Start a Housing Cooperative
Cooperative Housing International (CHI) recently featured two webinars to provide an overview of how to start a housing cooperative. There are many different steps involved in getting a housing cooperative off the ground and it ...Read More
ICA Global Conference- Parallel Session – Housing and Energy – The Cooperative Way
By 2050, two-thirds of all humanity will live in cities and consume 60 to 80% of the world’s energy. From slum dwellers in Manila to urbanists in Zurich, find out how people are joining forces and starting housing cooperatives to help lift themselves out of poverty and to improve the livability of their cities.Read More
Ukraine Symposium on Housing Cooperatives as a Model for Creating Affordable and Adequate Housing in Ukraine
In November, the Housing Initiative for Eastern Europe (IWO), an NGO bringing together private and public partners from Germany and abroad, held a symposium themed “Housing Cooperatives as a Model for Creating Affordable and Ade ...Read More
Vive la France! A home for retirees by retirees is officially open!
This is a story about a group of people from Vaulx-en-Velin, in the eastern suburbs of Lyon, France where fifteen retirees decided in 2009 to build a building in their image and to live better together. In 2010 they created the Ch ...Read More