Cooperative Housing

Abstract

The development and strengthening of housing co-operatives in the developing countries has always been one of the main targets of the Housing Committee of the International Co-operative Alliance. This handbook is therefore mainly dedicated towards the needs of those developing countries where the housing shortage should be overcome by the development and strengthening of cooperative movements. Housing problems and co-operative solutions are being discussed within the Housing Committee on an international level. This handbook will help to form new housing co-operatives, to improve already existing structures and organi sations, to review the financial requirements, to enable self-help schemes, to manage the running of a housing co-operative, to offer housing for building workers or consumers, to encourage staff training and to make use of the advantages of a housing co-operative. The first edition of “Co-operative Housing”was issued by the Housing Committee of the International Co operative Alliance in 1980, including examples of forty countries where hous ing co-operatives operate. This second revised edition concerns most of the first part of the original edition of “Co-operative Housing”, published by the Plunkett Foundation for Co-operative Studies, Oxford, U.K. in 1978 and has been updated to the housing needs of today. The Housing Committee is expressing thanks to all organizations, which collaborated in publishing the revised edition, in particular to the German Head Federation of Non-Profit Housing Associations, Cologne for the general revision and up-dating of this book. The second edition will also be published in German, French and Spanish