{"id":30581,"date":"2022-05-01T09:27:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T08:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/cooperative-cohousing-lives-its-spring-in-southern-europe\/"},"modified":"2022-05-17T16:30:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T15:30:14","slug":"cooperative-cohousing-lives-its-spring-in-southern-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/cooperative-cohousing-lives-its-spring-in-southern-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Spring&#8221; of Cooperative cohousing in southern Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Article by Rub\u00e9n M\u00e9ndez, Technical Secretariat of grupo Vivienda Cooperativa in cession of use in REAS Red de Redes<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">Cooperative housing in <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><b>transfer of non-profit use <\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">is configured as a <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><b>third way <\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">of solution to the problem of <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><b>access to housing<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">Barcelona, and Catalonia as a whole, represent a benchmark in <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><b>innovation in social housing <\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">with public-cooperative collaboration<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">Initiatives of the<\/span><\/span><b> <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economiasolidaria.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><u><b>Social and Solidarity Economy<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">with <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/trabensol.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><u>Trabensol<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"> and <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepatios.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><u>Entrepatios<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"> as references in Madrid, or <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laborda.coop\/es\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><u>La Borda<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ladinamofundacio.org\/project\/la-diversa\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><u>La Diversa<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">, <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sostrecivic.coop\/projectes\/princesa49\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><u>Princesa49<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sostrecivic.coop\/projectes\/la-balma\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><u>La Balma<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"> and <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sostrecivic.coop\/projectes\/cirerers\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><u>Cirerers<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"> in Barcelona, driven by\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ladinamofundacio.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><u>La Dinamo<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"> and <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sostrecivic.coop\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><u>Civic Sostre<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">Collective empowerment generates <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><b>more accessible, sustainable, bold and transformative\u00a0 <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>housing proposals<span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">, with numerous international recognitions<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 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href='https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/cooperative-cohousing-lives-its-spring-in-southern-europe\/vivienda_reas_logo_color-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" height=\"43\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/05\/vivienda_reas_logo_color.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/cooperative-cohousing-lives-its-spring-in-southern-europe\/la-balma_sostrecivic_milenavillalba_2021_23-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" height=\"60\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/05\/La-Balma_SostreCivic_\u00a9MilenaVillalba_2021_23.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">For decades, inspiring housing experiences have emerged in central and northern Europe that have provided important solutions for improving housing accessibility and fostering communities of mutual support and resilience. In recent years the southern territories have taken the baton and are experiencing the emergence of cooperative models of housing in cession of use. They are articulated for the development of community projects such as cohousing, cohousing or collaborative housing, with proposals with multiple impacts and the challenge of implementing the culture of public-cooperative collaboration to influence sectors with difficulties.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><i>In recent years, a small but significant revolution in the housing model, as expected as it is unknown to the general public, is flourishing with vigor. The first experiences, arising from the real estate crisis, have become icons of socio-community and architectural configuration, and also references in other aspects such as care, sustainability and efficiency. The impact of these projects, sheltered from the reflection in the media, increases the interest of public administrations in cohousing in a cooperative regime in transfer of non-profit use. They are interested in knowing their characteristics and analyzing the keys that need to be addressed to untangle the current regulatory configurations that hinder innovation in social housing of tenure and cooperative management. <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">These new community proposals represent a paradigm shift in the Spanish State with respect to traditional housing cooperatives, which have been articulated as a resource for financing and real estate development for subsequent sale in the free market. The new cooperative housing, with the self-promotion of the entire cooperative project tailored to the human group, is proposed as a social structure for the management of community life, maintaining collective ownership and with cession of use of spaces, both for intimate and collective use, and provide services to its members. This approach contributes to the generation of a stock of properties that are left out of price increases and speculative interests of the market.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">They are distributed throughout the geography, being able to be found both in the urban, peri-urban or rural areas, with the Senior variants for the elderly, with special attention to dependence and care, and the so-called intergenerational, as well as specific groups. The territories are in varying degrees of development, with Catalonia at the forefront, gradually overcoming all the regulatory, financial, urban and constructive difficulties, in addition to those of the configuration of a human group in development and evolution, towards more participatory, solidary, effective and satisfactory governance models.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Among the initiatives, those in the field of <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economiasolidaria.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><u>Social and Solidarity Economy <\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>stand out<span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">, with pioneering projects aimed at the elderly such as <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/trabensol.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><u>Trabensol<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">, in a rural setting in Torremocha del Jarama. Or the urban experience of <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepatios.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><u>Entrepatios<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"> in the neighborhood of Usera in Madrid with multiple recognitions that demonstrate the potential of an ecosocial model in a very complex context. In Catalonia, with great profusion in the city of Barcelona, we can find numerous examples such as <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laborda.coop\/es\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><u>La Borda<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">, an emblematic case and recently <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutos.es\/noticia\/4990984\/0\/edificio-la-borda-sants-premio-mies-van-der-rohe-arquitectura-emergente\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><u>awarded in the category of emerging architecture<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">by the Mies Van der Rohe, the most important awards given in the European Union. It is accompanied by new promotions such as\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ladinamofundacio.org\/project\/la-diversa\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><u>La Diversa<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">, <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sostrecivic.coop\/projectes\/princesa49\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><u>Princesa49<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sostrecivic.coop\/projectes\/la-balma\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><u>La Balma<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"> and <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sostrecivic.coop\/projectes\/cirerers\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><u>Cirerers<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"> promoted by the foundation\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ladinamofundacio.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><u>La Dinamo<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"> and the cooperative <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sostrecivic.coop\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><u>Civic Sostre<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">, members of the <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/xes.cat\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><u>Xarxa d&#8217;Economia Solid\u00e0ria<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"> (XES). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The human groups that lead this type of buildings, accompanied by technical teams specialized in these new models, design spaces to promote encounter, cohesion and mutual support, as well as to carry out activities that exceed the possibilities of the usual private homes. Thanks to this dynamic of empowerment, a breeding ground is generated that facilitates the creation of collective and entrepreneurial initiatives, such as solidarity funds, consumer and food groups, energy communities, joint services, growth and training activities, accompaniment in parenting and education, health promotion, care and assistance to dependency, etc.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">From REAS Network of Networks and the territorial networks that make it up, as referents of the social and solidarity economy, they have been articulating a structure of networking that has raised common bases, preparing learning days and sectoral meetings, making proposals that facilitate the creation of new projects, political and institutional dialogue for regulatory development, measures to promote and disseminate the model. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For more information: <span style=\"color: #38761d\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><b>Ruben Mendez, <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #6aa84f\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><i>Technical Secretariat of the State Working Group of <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #6aa84f\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><i><b>Cooperative Housing in cession of use <\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #6aa84f\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><i>in REAS Network Network<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> <a href=\"mailto:vivienda@reasnet.com\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><u>vivienda@reasnet.com<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #1155cc\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"> \/ <\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economiasolidaria.org\/vivienda\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><u><b>economiasolidaria.org\/vivienda<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article by Rub\u00e9n M\u00e9ndez, Technical Secretariat of grupo Vivienda Cooperativa in cession of use in REAS Red de Redes Cooperative housing in transfer of non-profit use is configured as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":30622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,2368],"tags":[8424,8437,8442],"class_list":["post-30581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-collaborative-project","tag-cohousing-2","tag-cooperative-cohousing","tag-house","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}