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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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VISION 4 HOUSING

Vision 4 Youth Housing Cooperative in Kenya is a youth group focused on providing its members with quality housing. Based in Nakuru Town, an area with an average growth rate of 3.1% … Read More

Research Africa Co-op Stories
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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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Impediments and Opportunities for Growing the Cooperative Housing Sector: an Australian Case Study

In many countries, housing cooperatives are longstanding and stable components of housing systems, providing a range of housing options that sit between the historically dual tenure poles of renting and owning. In … Read More

Research Australia Research Paper
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New Housing Playbook Should be Considered

This article lays out a new housing playbook that is relevant to communities all over. The playbook offers in-depth explanations of the barriers that stand in the way of building housing and … Read More

Research United States of America Research Paper
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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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Community Land Trusts And Limited Equity Cooperatives: A Marriage Of Affordable Homeownership Models?

            Since 2008, many have questioned the efficacy of conventional homeownership, particularly for low-income households. Advocates champion shared equity homeownership as an alternative, including community land trusts … Read More

Community Educational
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Australia Looks at Austria for Affordable Housing Financing Models

Australia Looks at Austria for Affordable Housing Financing Models

Research Australia Research Paper
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Capturing the Customer Voice

Resident satisfaction surveys continue to be an essential tool used to shape services, improve ways of working and enhance the customer experience or residents across the housing sector. In 2011, HouseMark launched … Read More

Research United Kingdom Research Paper
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Community Land Trusts in England: A Study of an Emerging Typology

The aim of this masters thesis by Dave Smith is to establish an emerging, consistent typology that could be termed an ‘English Community Land Trust’ – one distinct from that of other affordable housing providers; … Read More

Research United Kingdom
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