Mutual Aid Housing Cooperative in LasCahobas’ goal is to address the situation of 25 families displaced as a consequence of the 2010 earthquake so that they improve their habitat, strengthen their organizational skills and achieve a positive integration to the receiving community environment. While there are many challenges in Haiti when it comes to providing […]
A Utopian Vision of University Housing
Two blocks from the UCLA campus, the University Cooperative Housing Association offers the universitys students, visiting scholars and faculty affordable accommodation, at an average cost of $500 a month including meals. Founded in 1938, UCHA, or the Co-op, as it is known to residents, also offers much more, as is clear from its mission statement: […]
UCHA – University Cooperative Housing Association
The University Cooperative Housing Association (UCHA) provides reasonable-cost housing to qualified students, visiting scholars and faculty of UCLA and other nearby educational institutions. As it is a Co-op, members living here are owners and operators of the organization.We are located just two blocks from campus and have been serving the UCHA community for around seventy […]
How to feel at home
In 1644, English jurist Sir Edward Coke was quoted as saying: For a man’s house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium, or, one’s home is the safest refuge for all. And so it was for the first members of the HSB Housing cooperatives in Sweden in the early 1900s. They felt as […]
HSB Sweden
HSBs housing co-operatives form a strong, common organisation. As an ethically responsible organisation, HSB wants to be an active model within the industry in climate issues and to be at the forefront of the development of a sustainable housing sector. The HSB members organisation is divided into three sections: The local housing co-operatives; HSB Regional […]
Koperativ Lojman Sidès
Haitians are working to provide access to good sturdy housing for everyone two years after the country was hit by a devastating earthquake. I was one of the lucky ones, says Joël Jean-Baptiste, a development expert and a leader of a savings and housing co-op in southeastern Haiti. I didn’t lose any family, just a […]
How a Cooperative Saved a Home
You’ve lived for 25 years in a wonderful house in the Welsh countryside. Your grown children want to come back to live with you and raise their own children there. But your ex-husband wants a payout of his share of the value of your family home, which you can’t afford. What do you do? If […]
Permanent Housing Co-operative Limited
Permanent Housing Co-operative Limited is a fully mutual housing cooperative run by a family, based on permaculture principles.
Tenants unite to become owners
On the 27th of January 2000, after only weeks of rash preparation and planning, 51 tenants from the more than 100 year old buildings that make up the Bremer Höhe in Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg, founded the Bremer Höhe Housing Cooperative. The concept behind this new cooperative was to prevent the sale of the historically protected […]
“Bremer Höhe” Housing Cooperative
A young housing cooperative in Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg, also functioning as an umbrella for new housing projects.