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CoHabitat Network

The future is community-led

Community-led housing is a process by which residents organise collectively to build their human settlements from the bottom up.

Together and with the right support, they plan, finance, build, manage, and improve their habitat.

About the CoHabitat Network

We bring together community-led housing organizations & allies from across the world, who work to secure housing through collective, non-speculative, people-led solutions

Key themes and Funding

We strive to strengthen communities in their role as urban designers, developers and builders, and more broadly, in their role as active citizens of their cities. We believe in their collective capacity to develop long-term solutions to challenges related to climate change and social transformations through solidarity and resilience.

Latest news

NEW PUBLICATION (November 25, 2025) By La Dinamo, Mara Ferreri,...
To mark the publication’s release and open space for dialogue,...
NEW PUBLICATION (October 21, 2025) Our Land, Our Survival By...

The network

CoHabitat is a joint initiative by grassroots federations and umbrella organizations, as well as non-profit organizations and academic institutions working in the field of community-led housing.

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What we do

As an open and action-oriented collaboration, we work together to demonstrate the successes and potential of community-led housing, and make it more widespread and attainable by co-producing knowledge through experience exchanges, peer-to-peer learning and community-managed data production; connecting people across countries, organizations and regions; and co-designing affordable and collaborative financial tools.

We connect

We create spaces for experience exchange and peer learning to advocate for community-led housing and strengthen capacities

We coproduce

We co-produce knowledge through experience exchanges, peer-to-peer learning and community-managed data production

We cooperate

We work together to demonstrate the successes and potential of community-led housing, and make it more widespread and attainable

We collaborate

We co-design affordable and collaborative financial tools
for community-led housing