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Landelijk congres wooncoöperaties 2018:
De wooncoöperatie, die komt er wel!
Monday, 28 May 2018
De Remise, Ter Borchstraat 7, Den Haag
Session 8:
‘Wooncoöperaties’ and other forms of collaborative housing: an international perspective
Bovenzaal
Dr Darinka Czischke (Chair)
Carla Huisman & Stephanie Zeulevoet
Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment Delft University of Technology
Outline
1. What is ‘collaborative housing’?
2. The Dutch ‘wooncoöperatie’: challenges and opportunities
3. Searching for inspiration: some international examples
4. What can the Netherlands learn from these examples? (exercise with the audience)
5. Conclusions and future activities
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Outline
1. What is ‘collaborative housing’?
2. The Dutch ‘wooncoöperatie’: challenges and opportunities
3. Searching for inspiration: some international examples
4. What can the Netherlands learn from these examples? (exercise with the audience)
5. Conclusions and future activities
‘Collaborative Housing’
umbrella term that encompasses a wide range of collectively self-organised and self-managed
housing. These differ in the degree and nature of user-involvement, ‘community’ intention and
tenure/ownership type.
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Residents’ co-operatives
Cohousing
Outline
1. What is ‘collaborative housing’?
2. The Dutch ‘wooncoöperatie’: challenges and opportunities
3. Searching for inspiration: some international examples
4. What can the Netherlands learn from these examples? (exercise with the audience)
5. Conclusions and future activities
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Challenges for the Dutch Wooncoöperatie
☹ Little societal knowledge/familiarity with self- organised initiatives in housing;
☹ Lack of trust from institutional actors in self-organised groups;
☹ Current law and policy in the Netherlands does not
take wooncoöperaties into account.
Opportunities for the Dutch Wooncoöperatie
Changing
� role and scope of housing associations;
Opening of opportunities for civil society to step in.
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International exchanges
� with grassroots groups;
A specific
� legal status: a beginning!
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Outline
1. What is ‘collaborative housing’?
2. The Dutch ‘wooncoöperatie’: challenges and opportunities
3. Searching for inspiration: some international examples
4. What can the Netherlands learn from these examples? (exercise with the audience)
5. Conclusions and future activities
International cases
● Swedish model: kooperativ hyresrätt (co-operative rental)
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Sofielund, Malmö
● Austrian model
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ro*sa, Vienna
● French model
Village Vertical, Villeurbanne
MALMÖ, SE
Sofielund
Co
• -operative rental Finished in
• 2014
45
• flats (incl. ‘collectives’)
Landlord/owner: MKB (Malmo municipal
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housing company)
Tenure types
• Hyresrätt – Rental (37%)
– Kooperativ hyresrätt – Rental co-operative (block leasing)
• Bostadsrätt – Collective ownership (condominium) (22%)
• Äganderätt – Home-ownership (41%)
13 Municipal housing
company
Municipal housing company
Co-operative tenant association
Swedish cohousing rental tenures: individual vs. co-operative
$
$
$ $ $
$ $
Co-housing tenant association
Sofielund
VIENNA, AT
The women’s housing project [ro*sa]22
Rental + possibility to buy
•
after 10 years Finished in
• 2009
40
• flats
Landlord/owner: WBW
• -GPA
(housing association for private employees)
ro*sa
GRAND LYON, FR
“Le Village Vertical”, residents’ cooperative in Villeurbanne
• Co-operative rental (association) + co-owners through shares in association
• Finished in 2013
• 38 flats
• Landlord/owner: Rhone-Saone-Habitat (HLM social housing organisation)
Village Vertical
Village Vertical (+ 30 years)
Outline
1. What is ‘collaborative housing’?
2. The Dutch ‘wooncoöperatie’: challenges and opportunities
3. Searching for inspiration: some international examples
4. What can the Netherlands learn from these examples? (exercise with the audience)
5. Conclusions and future activities
What can we learn from…?
Legal and policy Organisation/Tenure Societal/Cultural
Sweden
Austria
France
Outline
1. What is ‘collaborative housing’?
2. The Dutch ‘wooncoöperatie’: challenges and opportunities
3. Searching for inspiration: some international examples
4. What can the Netherlands learn from these examples? (exercise with the audience)
5. Conclusions and future activities
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Co-Lab Research Future activities
26 – 30 June 2018, Uppsala (Sweden):
- Collaborative Housing workshops,
European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) annual conference.
November 2018, Amsterdam:
- International seminar, Project Samen
Wonen, Samen Onderzoeken (stay tuned!)
Co-Lab Research website
