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 three profiles on Italian housing co-operatives, click on the respective name: AUPREMA Co-operative, Milan, UNICA Co-operative Housing Society, Florence and Federabitazione.

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To the people of Emilia Romagna, co-ops are a part of daily life. Almost 2.7 million people are members of coops that generate over 40 billion dollars a year and employ 175,000 people. In Emilia Romagna, over 200,000 people live in cooperative housing. To find out more about this region of Italy, where cooperatives make up 30 % of the economy, click here.