Community Finance and Savings Systems: Innovative Tools for Urban Housing Solutions
Published in the Spring 2025 issue of Housing Finance International, this article explores how community-led finance tools—like savings groups and cooperatives—empower urban poor communities to improve housing conditions through accessible, inclusive systems.
The Collective Housing Landscape in Indonesia
Indonesia’s urban poor are pioneering collective housing solutions to counter displacement and housing insecurity. In February 2024, the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR), explored how the Urban Poor Consortium (UPC) is scaling up cooperative housing networks nationwide.
Community Land Co-operative Template Rules & Guide (Australia)
This resource from Australia’s Co-operation Housing is a guide on establishing a community land trust (CLT) using a cooperative legal structure. Furthermore, it addresses the key question of how the core objectives of CLTs and cooperatives can be combined.
Surrendering the environment for capital gain and Olson’s group theory: A case study of the dissolution of housing cooperative societies in Hong Kong
This paper describes the rise of cooperative housing for civil servants and its fall during the transition of Hong Kong from a British colony to a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China.
The Challenges and Resilience Of Cooperativs in Malaysia
Cooperatives in Malaysia, their challenges and the way forward.
Understanding Cooperative Housing Society: Types, Features, Benefits & Registration Process In 2023
A housing society is a distinct type of property ownership arrangement where ownership of property and homes is vested in an entity or organization rather than individual residents. Discover the various types … Read More
The Origins of Minsnail Housing Co-op in South Korea
Minsnail Housing Co-op started as Minsnail Union, in 2011, as a student housing civil organization in Seoul, South Korea that sought to create more dormitories in universities.