How can cities build alternative community-led housing models?

As part of a one-year learning activity, URBACT and UIA organised a first web conference on 24 April (11am) exploring practical ways cities can implement the right to housing.

Building on the experience of UIA and URBACT cities, this online event was designed as an interactive forum to present and discuss innovative solutions and trends such as community-land trusts, co-housing and cooperative housing.

It aimed to inspire city leaders and practitioners to collaborate and take action at municipal level. The discussions also contributed to the European Urban Agenda Parntership on housing and help develop further policy recommendations to push the agenda on the right to housing at national and EU levels.

To read the introductionary note, click here.

To read the follow-up article, click here.

To download the Powerpoint presentations, click here.

You can also watch again the web confence on our YouTube channel here.

• 6:55 - City case on Community Land Trust: UIA CALICO, Brussels Capital, by Arthur Cady
• 23:25 - Reflections on CLT and co-housing, by Michael Lafond
• 44:26 - City case on cooperative housing: URBACT ALT/BAU, Chemnitz, by Volker Tzschucke
• 58:48 - Reflections on cooperative housing, by Andreas Wirz
• 1:26:45 - City case on co-housing: UIA E-CO-Housing, Budapest, by Rebeka Szabó
• 1:41:04 - Reflections on collaborative housing, by Darinka Czisckhe
• 2:06:55 - Closing remarks, by Michalis Goudis

Speakers

• Dr Darinka Czischke is assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands). With over 15 years' international experience in research, teaching and consultancy, her expertise includes collaborative housing model with a comparative approach.
• Dr Michael LaFond is an activist, research and practitioner working at the intersections of common good and collective ownership in Berlin. He has decades of experience in co-housing.
• Andreas Wirz, is an architecht, co-founder of the housing cooperative Kraftwerk1, Board of Directors of the Swiss Housing Cooperatives Association Zurich and CEO of Archipel GmbH
• Michalis Goudis, Housing Europe
• UIA CALICO project (Brussels) and UIA E-CO Housing (Budapest)
• URBACT ALT/BAU (Chemnitz)

Moderated by Laura Colini, UIA and URBACT Expert, with support from : Levente Polyak, UIA and URBACT Expert

Agenda