Land and housing: pathways to decommodification and cooperativisation
NEW PUBLICATION (November 25, 2025)
By La Dinamo, Mara Ferreri, Lorenzo Vidal, Melissa Fernández
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.
Our Land, Our Survival
NEW PUBLICATION (October 21, 2025)
Our Land, Our Survival
By Line Algoed
Understanding the CoHabitat Network: Why community-led housing is a sustainable solution
We are happy to announce the release of the documentary « Why community-led housing is a sustainable solution? », a 39-minute film that presents the CoHabitat Network and the work of some of its members worldwide.
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.
ISHF: Building Bridges Through Community-Led Housing
Reconnecting, sharing knowledge, and reaffirming the vital role of community-led housing.
CoHabitat Network at the International Social Housing Festival 2025
It’s finally here – the long-awaited International Social Housing Festival (ISHF) is coming!
Winners of the 2025 World Habitat Awards announced!
The 2025 Gold Award winners are Tanzania Women Architects for Humanity (TAWAH) for Mhaga Homes for the Elderly and Hastings Commons in the UK.
Winners of the 2024 World Habitat Awards announced!
The 2024 Gold World Habitat Award winners are pioneering approaches addressing the challenges of climate change and tenure insecurity.
Why and how cities can promote affordable and sustainable Collaborative Housing
Presentation, notes, Q&A and Toolbox from the conference organised at International Social Housing Festival 2023 by urbaMonde and NETCO.