ICA Housing, in conjunction with CECODHAS, helped fund a project designed to look at different housing co-operatives around the world and try and draw some lessons useful to other housing co-operatives around the world. Titled 'Application of Co-operative Principles in Practice' it documents twenty-one cases of housing co-operatives from twelve countries. To view the two profiles on Portuguese housing co-operatives, click on the respective name: CHE AS Sete Bicas CRL and FENACHE’s Youth Committee.

Produced by FENACHE, The Charter for the Quality in the Cooperative Housing (Charter) is an instrument of promotion, affirmation and dissemination, of the role of FENACHE (National Federation of Housing Cooperatives) and of the member Cooperatives. This charter is an instrument of clarification and progressive qualification of the housing cooperative sector in the performance of its social mission. Click here to read it in full.