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New India Country Profile Posted

Published 07/29/2009

A new country profile on the history and current setup of housing cooperatives in India is now available to read. Click here to read it. » Read More

New Pakistan Country Profile Posted

Published 07/27/2009

A new country profile on the history and current setup of housing cooperatives in Pakistan is now available to read. Click here to read it. » Read More

Portugal Housing Co-operative Country Profile Posted

Published 07/15/2009

The housing co-operative profile for Portugal has been posted. Click here to read the profile. FENACHE have also produced a Charter outlining its role and out it plans on ensuring quality cooperative housing in Portugal, click here to read it in full. » Read More

ICA Housing Survey - Housing Co-operative Priorities

Published 07/7/2009

ICA Housing Board and Staff are interested to hear about the issues you are facing in serving your housing co-operatives members. Click here to take the survey.

We hope to make our website relevant and engaging for our members and your feedback will guide us in searching information that is most useful for you.

With a more short-term goal in mind, your answers will also help up in developing an attracting and interesting program for the upcoming meetings – seminar and plenary – to be held next November in conjunction with the ICA General Assembly.

Needless to say that your collaboration is most appreciated.

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ICA Housing Forum Launched

Published 05/22/2009

Please visit our new ICA Housing Forum which has been set up to allow better facilitation between members on issues faced by housing co-operatives from start-up to mature housing co-operatives we have organized a forum where ICA Housing members can discuss relevant. Click here to post a question and talk to housing co-operatives around the world. » Read More

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Featured Articles

Financing Housing Co-operatives in a Credit Crunch

Financing the development of housing co-operatives is a challenge and more so in time of financial restrictions and uncertainty.

ICA Housing Members discussed the issue during the Seminar held in November 2009 in Geneva. Five presentations were made by ICA Housing members showing interesting and innovative initiatives.

Also included is a presentation made by Ancab - Legacoop at the Cecodhas meeting in September 2009.

Impact of the financial crisis on housing coops in Europe - Hachmann

Leveraging assets to reduce borrowing costs - David Rodgers

The effects of recession on Canadian housing co-operatives - Nick Gazzard

Combination of a Housing Coop with a Saving Institution - Franz-Bernd Grosse-Wilde

SVW - Stephan Schwitter

National Italian Housing plan - Luciano Caffini

New Interactive ICA Housing Member Map

We have just activated a new page that replaces the old member list with a dynamic map populated by a new database that allows for easier access to information on ICA Housing Members and ICA Housing Co-operative around the world. Visitors can now search on a variety of categories, competencies, and countries.

Please browse over to the new interface and enjoy the new and improved experience.