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Six Years in the Making, Berlin’s IBeB Cooperative Housing Development Creates a Tight-Knit Community of Residents

Written by George Kafka for Metropolis, the article reports on the ongoing community-building process for the 66-units strong cooperative housing development IBeB in Berlin, with a focus on how the baugruppe has integrated community-making in the customisation of the project.

Antidotes to Gentrification

Plans for democratized, affordable housing.

Authored by Valerie Schloredt and published on Yes Magazine, the article places an emphasis on what city residents can do to counter gentrification and make effectively more inclusive cities, instead of resigning to the status quo of communities beind displaced, evicted or bought out, creating af

Communal living in Portland during the coronavirus pandemic: Yes, it’s safe and it’s working

Janet Eastman's article reports on the experience of cohousing residents in Portland at the time of the covid19 pandemic, highlighting how cohousing communities have been faring better as opposed to other housing configurations, as they could organise a solidarity network, distribute tasks a

How we could maintain a decent social life in cohousing unit Slottet in the midst of the Corona restrictions

The first post of the CoLab - Research blogseries on COVID19 and Collaborative Housing is written by Bertil Egerö and describes how the pandemic has impacted life in Slottet ("Castle", in Swedish), a cohousing community for senior citizens in Lund, Sweden.