Welcome to the second ICA Housing E-Bulletin for March/April 2009!

 

We hope to include some of the newest and most useful information regarding housing co-operatives around the world and plan to send an E-Bulletin every two months. Please feel free to forward this E-Bulletin to your colleagues and fellow co-operators. Between E-Bulletins please feel free to check out website at http://www.icahousing.org.

 

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ICA Housing is a sectoral organisation of the International Co-operative Alliance. It was established to promote the development of co-operative housing in all countries, and in particular developing countries, as an economic and social contribution to the problem of providing shelter.

 

ICA Housing is one of the nine sectors of the International Co-operative Alliance. We are very proud of the fact that we are the apex body of the worldwide co‑operative housing movement. Our mission is to unite, represent and serve the international movement for co‑operative and mutual self-help housing.

  

Dates for the Diary:                       

May 31                Deadline for entries for dotCoop Global Awards for Cooperative Excellence. More information: www.globalawards.coop.

June 1                   Deadline for World Habitat Awards 2009. The Building and Social Housing Foundation is now accepting entries for the 2009 edition of the World Habitat Awards. To read more about it, click here.

June 30                 CLT Conference 2009 in London, UK. Click here for more details.

July 4                     International Day of Co-operatives 2009: "Driving global recovery through co-operatives." Click for more information.

Nov. 17-20          ICA Sectoral Meetings and General Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.  Click here for latest information.

 

In this E-Bulletin:

New France Cooperative Housing Profile – in English and in French

ICA Housing Survey

New ICA Housing Forum Launched

Housing Co-operatives offer benefits to Senior Citizens

ICA Housing Best Practice Book Launched

New ICA Housing Membership Rules

 

New France Cooperative Housing Profile – in English and in French

ICA Housing has recently posted a profile on Housing Co-operatives in France in both English and French, click here to read it. These country profiles provide invaluable information on the many different housing co-operative organizations, as well as the financial and legal frameworks that exist for them in their respective countries.

  

ICA Housing Survey

To enable ICA Housing to better understand the needs of housing co-operatives around the world we have set up a simple, easy to answer survey that should take up no more than 5 minutes of your time. We would appreciate if you would spend a little of your time to aid ICA Housing in better tailoring its services to your needs.

 

New ICA Housing Forum Launched

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.

 

 

Housing Co-operatives offer benefits to Senior Citizens

In a new series of articles about the many benefits co-operative housing provides to its members, we explore a Senior Citizen Housing Co-operative in Canada. Click here to read about their struggle and eventual success at building a housing co-operative that fits the unique needs of its members.

 

 ICA Housing Best Practice Book Launched

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. Click here to read some of the many interesting and informative case studies.

New ICA Housing Membership Rules

From January 1st 2009, ICA Housing along with the International Co-operative  Alliance has adopted new membership rules. The ICA Global Rule changes now permit a greater range of organizations to join ICA and its sectoral and regional organizations. They have also made it affordable to members from less affluent countries. Those members whose membership status requires action to continue participating with ICA Housing have now been informed. We would encourage you to make sure you are aware of the impact of these changes on your organization. Please feel free to contact ICA Housing if you have any questions or concerns. For more information click here to read more about the changes.

 

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