Solution

Community-led housing offers a powerful solution to today’s housing crisis. Over the past 40 years, various grassroots movements have developed flexible and adaptable co-housing models that can be tailored to fit diverse realities and scaled up for wider implementation.

At the core of these models is collective ownership—a system where residents collaborate, pool resources, and ensure permanently affordable rents. This approach fosters residents` mobility, efficient use of space, and social well-being, while guaranteeing high-quality living conditions for all through solidarity and democratic participation.

The collaborative model extends beyond individual co-housing projects, reaching local, municipal, regional, national, and even European levels. It complements existing housing supply by bringing stability and permanency—qualities that are often missing—while introducing greater diversity to housing options. With the potential for wide-scale adoption, it can serve as the foundation for a radically different social model—one that is more humane, equitable, and rooted in solidarity.