£1.2 Million UK Funding will Boost Energy Efficiency in Cooperative Housing
The Confederation of Co-operative Housing (CCH) in the UK was successful in its Consortium bid to the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero’s Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF). The fund will boost energy efficiency in the social housing stock across the country.Read More
First Senior Housing Coop in Barcelona is a Model of Coexistence for Aging
The coop is aimed at over 50s and will have 26 homes built on public land (also a first!) The group has worked and debated on how it wants to live since 2015 and is clear that growing old in solitude is not in the cards. The coop will feature community spaces such as a kitchen to be shared between 4 or 5 homes, an urban garden and a treatment and physiotherapy room.Read More
Cooperativa Palo Alto: the first housing cooperative in Mexico City that is still working to protect its community 50 years later
This article is about a housing cooperative in Palo Alto, Mexico City that was founded nearly 50 years ago on the outskirts of the city in a former sand pit. Now the cooperative sits among tall office and apartment towers in an exclusive district called Bosques de las Lomas.Read More
Funding Opportunities to Boost Cooperative Housing Development in Australia
Congratulation to Kyloring Co-operative Housing, located within the Witchcliffe Ecovillage, in Witchcliffe, Western Australia, for receiving $2.9 million to provide eight dwellings under the government's Social Housing Economic Recovery Package (SHERP). Rounds 1 and 2 of the SHERP Grants Program are set to deliver more than 320 new social housing dwellings across Western Australia.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