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Collaborative Housing in Europe

NETCO partners gathered in Montpellier to exchange experiences on collaborative housing, affordable housing policies and local government support across Europe.

International Legal Research and Analysis Initiative Report

NEW PUBLICATION (October 2025)
Research and Analysis Initiative of the International Cooperative Alliance – The Law on Cooperative Housing
By Tomasz Marzec, Ajibola Akanji and coordinated by Julie La Palme, Santosh Kumar Padmanabhan

Community-led Finance for Adequate Housing – Webinar 4 December 2025

To mark the publication’s release and open space for dialogue, we officially launched « Community-led Finance for Adequate Housing » in an online webinar on December 4th. Partners from across the three regions shared insights, lessons learned, and recommendations for strengthening community-led finance as a pathway toward housing justice.

Community-Led Finance: Local Solutions Transforming the Housing Crisis

From 2024 to 2025, urbaMonde worked with nine grassroots organisations from Africa, Asia, and Latin America—members of the CoHabitat Network—to systematise community-led financial mechanisms. The resulting publication presents their origins, how they function, key challenges, and the practices that have enabled them to grow and endure.