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Welcome to the Cooperative Housing International’s resources section. Here, you’ll find current and practical information from around the world, curated to support the work of housing cooperatives. Whether you're seeking guidance, best practices, or updates on emerging issues, this section offers tools and materials to help your organization stay informed and effective. You can filter resources by topic, country and resource type.


If you have a resource you'd like to share with the international cooperative housing community, please email us at info@chi.coop.

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Land & Financing for Community-led Housing – Sostre Civic’s Experience

Sostre Civic is a “right to use” housing cooperative based in Catalonia, Spain. The cooperative promotes an alternative housing access model that is achieved through discovery, counsel, funding research, promotion and management. … Read More

Financing and Development Europe Presentation
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Collab Mapping

The “Mapping social innovation and collaboration in housing – Co-Lab Mapping” is a project developed in collaboration with TU Delft, Urbamonde, and with support of the Dutch architecture firm Inbo. The Co-Lab … Read More

Research Europe Educational
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Socially Oriented Cooperative Housing as Alternative to Housing Speculation

National housing systems increasingly combine three main types of housing: the private property sector (homeownership and private rental), social and public rental (public and non-profit sectors), and cooperative (social or civil economy). … Read More

Research Europe Research Paper
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Social, affordable and co-operative housing in Europe – Case studies from Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Denmark

The Housing Agency of Ireland compiled 44 case studies from Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Denmark. The case studies respond to the various challenges of providing adequate housing.  The report includes public projects led by government or city authorities, mixed-tenure private developments, and collective schemes led by residents. Like Ireland, all the selected countries have an established tradition of providing housing that is not purely market-oriented to meet a portion of their housing need.

Austria Report
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MOBA Network

MOBA is a network that meets regularly to build the necessary pool of expertise, capacities and financial instruments to launch cooperative housing pilot projects in the central eastern European region.

Advocacy Europe
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Financing Housing Co-operatives in Switzerland

This presentation on access to capital for housing cooperatives is from a CHI workshop on sources of financing for building new and renovating existing housing co-operatives. It provides an overview of the … Read More

Financing and Development Europe
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Access to Capital for Housing Co-operatives in Norway

This presentation is from a workshop on accessing capital for building new and renovating existing housing co-operatives at ICA’s Annual Congress in Antalya, Turkey in November 2014. It provides an overview of the co-operative housing movement in Norway, the different sources of capital and barriers to overcome.

Financing and Development Europe
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Profiles of a Movement: Co-operative Housing around the World – Volume One

Cooperative housing offers long-term, affordable homes governed by residents, with proven social, economic, and environmental benefits. Despite its global impact, the sector remains under-recognized.

Financing and Development Europe Report
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