Housing Europe Spanish Cooperative member organisation, CONCOVI- the Confederation of Housing and Renewal Cooperatives of Spain- has published its report about the state of cooperative housing under construction. The total economic volume generated during 2016 by 66 CONCOVI cooperative members in the Community of Madrid amounts to around 1,4 billion Euros.

This September Tirana (Tiranë) will host more than 300 participants from all over Europe and beyond in one of the biggest events on housing – the European Network for Housing Research Conference. During these three days 23 workshops will take place, 8 plenary sessions with a wide range of topics and 7 field trips in the most critical residential areas from housing, urban planning and sociological points of view. Undoubtedly, these in combination with new research outcomes will give rise to fascinating discussions among participants.

What can Danish housing associations and tenant representatives learn from a visit to West London? Exchange between member organisations but also between members of Housing Europe members is at the very core of the activities of the European Federation of Public, Cooperative and Social Housing. We have asked Shepherds Bush Housing Group (SBHG)- a member of the NHF in the UK- and Arbejdernes Andels Boligforening- a member of BL in Denmark to share with us their experience of their recent meet up in the British capital.