CoHabitat

Scope

Global

Website

https://www.co-habitat.net

Focus areas

Housing & Buildings

Summary

The CoHabitat Network is a global collaboration established in 2018, focusing on community-led housing initiatives. It emerged from a Social Production of Habitat Forum in Geneva in 2014 and has since been supported by prominent organizations such as the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation and World Habitat. The network empowers communities to act as urban designers and builders, showcasing the effectiveness of community-led housing. It facilitates knowledge sharing through experience exchanges and peer learning, promoting collaboration across various regions and organizations. Among its key initiatives are the CoHabitat.io database for documenting housing projects and the Habitat Solidarity Fund, which addresses funding gaps for community-led housing efforts.

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Further Documents

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CoHabitat has initiated the open source database CoHabitat.io

Meeting notes

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Created time

Feb 25, 2021 2:21 PM

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The CoHabitat Network is a global network of community-led housing organizations and allies working together to promote and support community-led housing initiatives. The network was established in 2014 following a Social Production of Habitat Forum in Geneva and officially became the CoHabitat Network in 2018. It is supported by various organizations, including the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation, World Habitat, and the Laudes Foundation. CoHabitat aims to strengthen communities in their role as urban designers, developers, and builders, and to demonstrate the successes and potential of community-led housing. The network achieves this through co-producing knowledge through experience exchanges and peer-to-peer learning, connecting people across countries and organizations, and co-designing affordable and collaborative financial tools. Key tools and initiatives include the CoHabitat.io database, an open data and collaborative tool to document and connect community-led housing projects, and regional meetings for experience exchange and peer learning. The network also offers the Habitat Solidarity Fund, a financial solution based on solidarity to address the lack of access to affordable finance for community-led housing. CoHabitat works with a diverse range of partners and organizations to promote community-led housing as a sustainable and inclusive solution to urban challenges.