Full Description
For years, we have been observing an increase in housing shortage in Europe, to which the public sector has so far failed to respond adequately. At the same time, there has been a steady growth in grassroots initiatives developing non-speculative community-led housing while joining forces across Europe. This edited collection focuses on the translocal networks interlinking these grassroots movements and explores their social innovations to support alternative imaginaries of housing and structures of solidarity. The book thus provides the first comprehensive overview of translocal grassroots housing networks in Europe and the housing models they propagate (including new co-operatives and community land trusts), while undertaking international in-depth analyses. It is arranged along inter- and transdisciplinary lines: In addition to researchers from the fields of human geography, housing studies, sociology, architecture and anthropology, the authors include practitioners from the NGO sector and grassroots activists.
Contents
Preface
Julie LaPalme, Guido Schwarzendahl
Grassroots housing models in Europe — debates and the potential of translocal networks. An introduction
Corinna Hölzl
Part I Grassroots housing production in Europe: National and local similarities and differences
1 Zagreb and Vienna — 7,681 affordable housing units: Revisiting large-scale not-for-profit housing provision
Iva Marcetic, Gabu Heindl
2 Community-led housing in England: Emergence, growth and prospects
David Mullins, Tom Archer, Tom Moore
3 The transformative role of institutional capabilities. The diffusion of the community land trust model in Belgium between community agency and political will
Verena Lenna, Nele Aernouts
4 Between provision and self-determination: New forms and networks of self-governance in public and collectively-owned housing in Germany.
Bettina Barthel,Anna Heilgemeir
5 Housing co-operatives in Italy: A discontinuous tradition amid crisis and re-emerging public-co-operative synergies
Silvia Cafora, Rossella Ferro
6 Collaborative housing in the Czech Republic: Focusing on the layers of obduracy
Tomáš Horení Samec, Petr Kodenko Kubala, Václav Orcígr, Jan Malý Blažek
Part II Translocal networks, institutions and solidarity
7 Advocating housing politics transnationally and translocally
Johanna Hoerning, Florin Keuneke
8 The emergence of student housing cooperatives in the UK: Grassroots activism, trans-local networks and situational challenges
Anke Schwittay
9 The NETCO collaborative housing network. European cities: Practicing, cooperating and recommending
Michael LaFond
10 Community-led housing as an opportunity for development and growing together in Europe. A call for civil society financing instruments and more public support
Rolf Novy-Huy
11 Engaging with EU funding: How the Global Ecovillage Network leverages projects in Europe
André de Freitas Girardi, Ana Margarida Esteves
12 Transnational pathways - Taking the CLT framework from place to place to transform structures and debates on land ownership
Sabine Horlitz, Corinna Hölzl
Part III Conversations with and about transnational grassroots networks
13 The CoHabitat Network: Connecting civil society around community-led housing across the globe. In conversation with urbaMonde
Corinna Hölzl, Sascha Rentzsch, Pierre Arnold
14 'We need to mainstream the alternatives' - In conversation about transnational financial instruments and legal forms to allow for new housing cooperatives in Europe
Corinna Hölzl, Sascha Rentzsch, Ana Džokic, Goran Jeras, Knut Höller, Peter Kämmerling
15 The European Student Cooperative Housing Alliance: A conversation about growing student housing cooperatives
Anke Schwittay, Scott Jennings, Jens-Uwe Köhler, Léa Oswald
Conclusion: Contemporary character of community-led housing and the capacities of translocal networks
Corinna Hölzl
