In October 2002, the Urban Sector Network (USN), Rooftops Canada / Abri International and the Social Housing Foundation (SHF) set out the terms of reference for an evaluation of the 3 co-operative housing projects that were being undertaken by USN affiliates: Shayamoya, developed by the Built Environment Support Group (BESG); the Newtown Co-operative, developed by the Cope Housing Association; (Cope) and the Amalinda project currently being developed with the support of Afesis-Corplan. The evaluation was aimed at sharing lessons learnt from the USN’s experience in social housing, as well as to extract recommendations for future action and policy development for social housing delivery. The key purpose of the study is to look at the role NGO’s can play in supporting social housing institutions and development and the viability of these approaches and secondly, to evaluate the roles of the respective USN affiliates in the development of co-operative models and how they meet their objectives. Click here to read the document.