In 2012, as a contribution to the United Nations International year of Cooperatives, Housing Europe, together with Cooperative Housing International (ICA Housing at the time), published the report: “Profiles of a Movement: Co-operative Housings Around the World”. The document offered a detailed explanation of the different housing cooperative models existing at that time in twenty-two countries from Europe, North America and Asia.
A decade afterwards, many of the long-standing cooperative models described in that report are still standing, and they are innovating to adapt to new context and challenges. At the same time, we witness a resurgence in the interest towards housing cooperatives from public authorities as well as civil society in many places across Europe, which see the cooperative model as a part of the solution to the ever-growing housing affordability crisis.
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