The World Habitat Awards, which are organised by World Habitat in partnership with UN-Habitat, are the world’s leading housing awards, with winners receiving £10,000 and the opportunity for international development opportunities.

One partner of the CoHabitat Network, Sostre Cívic, won Silver. Sostre Cívic is an umbrella organisation that supports cooperative groups to purchase and/or develop buildings, usually on municipal land, and advocates for the sector in Catalonia and throughout Spain. The organisation currently has 1,000 members and 17 ongoing projects in Catalonia, comprising 236 homes.

Two SDI affiliates also won an award: urbaSEN and the Senegalese Federation of Inhabitants won Gold; the Namibia Housing Action Group/Shack Dweller Federation of Namibia  won Bronze.

Congratulations on this international recognition!

An online session hosted by World Habitat, with CatComm and MOBA, two partners of the CoHabitat Network.

Community-led approaches enabling people to lead their own housing solutions are emerging as a key pathway towards materialising the right to housing and providing affordable and secure housing for all. Yet, for community-led practice and actors to have significant and sustained impact a supporting policy framework appears fundamental. How can we re-imagine, create, and advocate for the policies, at local, regional, and national level, that can facilitate housing for and by people?

January 25, 2023 - 2pm (CET)

ACHR regularly documents collective housing case studies to promote community-driven forms of housing in Asia. The case studies are also documented on our database cohabitat.io. With these new cases, find out about inspiring projects in Indonesia, Bangladesh and Cambodia.