Promotes cooperative housing initiatives for affordable living.
La Dinamo Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Barcelona that promotes and supports cooperative housing initiatives. Founded in 2016, it aims to make housing more accessible and affordable through community-led projects. The foundation focuses on three main areas: providing financial support, offering technical assistance, and promoting the cooperative housing model. It operates a revolving fund to help finance new cooperative housing projects, particularly those using the "right of use" model where residents don't own their homes but have secure, long-term tenure. La Dinamo typically provides loans of up to €200,000 per project for initial costs like architectural plans and deposits. It also offers grants of around €30,000 to help groups get started. To receive funding, projects must be cooperatively managed, non-speculative, and committed to social and environmental sustainability. Recent projects supported by La Dinamo include La Borda, a 28-unit cooperative building in Barcelona that has become a model for sustainable urban housing. The foundation has also backed initiatives like Sostre Cívic and La Xarxaire, which are developing new cooperative communities. Through its work, La Dinamo aims to create alternatives to traditional housing models and foster more inclusive, sustainable urban development across Catalonia and beyond.