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Commmunity Land Trust Brussels

fabrikagrafika — Tue, 09 May 2023 10:02:54 +0000

Community Land Trust Brussels (CLTB) develops permanently affordable housing projects in Brussels for people with limited means on collectively-owned land. It offers low-income residents of Brussels the possibility of living in affordable, sustainable, and quality homes. The work of Community Land Trust Brussels is not just limited to the development of housing, but also extends to community work…

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BEG Wolfhagen

fabrikagrafika — Tue, 09 May 2023 10:02:54 +0000

Wolfhagen BEG is a consumer cooperative that is co-owner of the Stadtwerke Wolfhagen, a municipal energy producer. It provides an outstanding example of what can be called a 'public-common' partnership, where a municipal utility is co-owned and co-governed by a cooperation between the public authority and a citizens consumer cooperative. It is thus an excellent example of what is called a 'just transition', not only contributed to increased energy efficiency and production of renewable energy, but democratizing both access and ownership. Cooperative members currently receive a grant for the purchase of energy-efficient appliances, the purchase of programmable radiator thermostats and on-site energy advice. Since 2014, more than 130 members have submitted applications for the purchase of new household appliances with the highest energy efficiency class and have been reimbursed up to ten percent of the initial costs, up to a maximum of 50 euros. The cooperative also promotes the purchase of electric bikes, subsidising up to 10 percent of the purchase price or €150 per member.

Mietshäuser Syndikat

fabrikagrafika — Tue, 09 May 2023 10:02:54 +0000

Mietshäuser Syndikat is a federation of housing associations which has been operating since 1987 in Austria and Germany. Its name means "trade union of rental apartment buildings". In the last 30 years, Mietshäuser Syndikat has removed more than 130 rental flats from the real estate market. This has enabled more than 2,900 ordinary people to have permanent access to affordable collective housing. At the end of 2018, 136 projects were associated with the Mietshäuser Syndikat and 17 more were interested in joining. Its mission is to help develop a federation of residential housing units managed by peers and residents. These own the buildings, but at the same time they pay rent to themselves and to the federation to ensure the smooth running of the whole system.

MOBA Housing SCE

fabrikagrafika — Tue, 09 May 2023 10:02:54 +0000

MOBA is a network of pioneering housing cooperatives in Central and South-Eastern Europe. It gathers co-operative housing developments that are being explored by pioneering groups as a way to respond to the housing emergency – unaffordability, speculation, negligible amount of social housing, and taking the lead in reinventing affordability of housing from the bottom up. The name MOBA comes from a term used in South Slavic languages to refer to the widespread custom of mobilizing mutual help. MOBA members are mobilizing themselves to build an institutional framework rooted in cooperative principles, in order to jointly enable access to affordable housing and provide durable homes to communities region-wide, with members operating in Belgrade, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague and Zagreb.

La Dinamo

fabrikagrafika — Tue, 09 May 2023 10:02:54 +0000

La Dinamo is a foundation created with the aim of encouraging and promoting the implementation of the cooperative housing model in cession of use as an alternative to conventional models of access to housing, as well as to normalise its existence. We want to become a support for those initiatives that contribute in some way to the extension of cooperative housing projects, and to collaborate with…

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Neighborhood Initiative Alexandros Svolos

fabrikagrafika — Tue, 09 May 2023 10:02:54 +0000

The Neighborhood Initiative Alexandros Svolos has been active since 2013, carrying out various cultural and participatory actions in the public space. It is made up of a diverse mix of people and operates with horizontal organizational structures. On a daily basis, it looks for ways in which the neighborhood will become more alive and creative. Thus, it combines the community collective knowledge and leverages the skills of the local creative capital. By following specific and methodological steps, it attempts to cultivate the identity of the neighborhood and to consolidate a more participatory culture. This context is focused on enhancing the quality of life which, through participation, self-organization and cultural expression, aims to connect residents with the neighborhood and the urban commons.

Assemblée des communs

fabrikagrafika — Tue, 09 May 2023 10:02:54 +0000

The Grenoble Assembly of the Commons is a cooperative space for the production, development and preservation of the commons by and for citizens. It acts for the valorisation and reappropriation of the commons.

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AKS Gemeinwohl

fabrikagrafika — Tue, 09 May 2023 10:02:54 +0000

AKS Gemeinwohl works as an interface between district administration, civil society and politics in the district Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Berlin. AKS Gemeinwohl supports projects and spaces that are commited for the common good and promotes sustainable land policy in order to ensure a diverse urban society. AKS Gemeinwohl is a platform for experimenting and testing new forms of cooperative urban development. It works as contact and consulting point for urban policy initiatives and real estate owners who want to make their real estate available for common good-oriented use. They bring together people from the local administration, politicians and the civil society, and promote public dialogue on the topic of common good-oriented and cooperative urban development.

Recreational Zone Banja Luka – RZBL

fabrikagrafika — Tue, 09 May 2023 10:02:54 +0000

Recreational Zone Banja Luka - RZBL is a green area of 500 hectares situated within the urban zone of Banja Luka. It is located in a hill with monument to fallen partisan soldiers in World War, a recreational space - Trešnjik, paved access roads, forest paths and the surrounding forest. The hill was known as “Šehitluci”, after Muslim warriors that died in the vicinity in the 19th century, and in 1992 was renamed as Banj Brdo (Banj Hill) by the authorities of the city, inhabited predominentally by ethnics Serbs. After the attempt to open an restaurant in the grounds, the “Citizens Initiative Recreational Zone Banja Luka -RZBL” chose a neutral name to defend the public use of the area. In 2013, the Initiative, helped by experts, created the “Independent Analysis For Recreational Bicycling Introduction on Banj Hill”, which proposed and developes different rules and instructions for using the recreational area and organized various maintenance activities to improve it.

Magacin

fabrikagrafika — Tue, 09 May 2023 10:02:54 +0000

The Magacin Cultural Centre is a space dedicated to art, culture and social activity. It was founded in 2007 as a partnership of actors from the independent scene and institutions of the City of Belgrade. Through the open calendar model, Magacin is, without any charge, available on a daily basis to hundreds of users, who contribute together to the maintenance and the improvement of the space and its ever growing visibility and value. At the same time, it becomes a place of an emerging community that keeps growing daily and an example of a collective effort in maintaining a common public good. MKM covers an area of 2000 m² of ground floor, basement with a Small scene and attic. Two smaller builsings, MKM6 and MKM4 form the informal inner yard of Magacin, while galley Ostavinska with an area of 128 m² is used by MKM organizations.