This paper reports on evaluation methodology applied in the Experimental Housing and Urban Design program (Experimenteller Wohnungsund Städtebau Exwost) of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Construction and Urban Development (Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Bau und Stadtentwicklung) in Germany. The specific context is the current (2004-2006) program 'Potentials of Housing Cooperatives' (Genosse...

For some Canadians, the term “housing policy” evokes images of public housing, government subsidies for low-income households, and programs aimed at helping Canada’s unhoused individuals and families. It is easy, though inaccurate, to view housing policy as having this limited scope. After all, 95 percent of Canadian households obtain their housing from the private market. Two-thirds of all hou...

Abstract Housing cooperatives have to meet big challenges. They are well known as providers of affordable and safe housings. But now ensuring the energy procurement for their members has increased in relevance. New economic political developments threaten investments new houses energetic refurbishment existing buildings order achieve government’s climate protection goals. Long-term relations wi...

While decent housing is important to every individual and nation, housing crisis remains one of the global problems and a grave and rising challenge facing both urban and rural residents, particularly in most developing countries. Thus, in spite of a number of political, social, and religious initiatives taken in the past in some of these developing countries, a great proportion of their popula...

This article explores some of the key institutional challenges hindering development a new ‘social’ housing cooperative model in Finland. In response to rising unaffordability and insecurity private sector, retrenching social Finland is experiencing resurgence practical political interest cooperatives. Based on document study interviews with stakeholders, this paper investigates three Finnish c...