Links
Links to various development organizations:
Community Land Trusts
Read about an ICA Housing Member, CDS-Coops UK's work in partnership with Salford University, on Community Land Trust, which is another form of providing affordable housing. To see more information about Community Land Trusts here.For details of CDS Coops work in Salford click here.
DESWOS
DESWOS Deutsche Entwicklungshilfe für soziales Wohnungs- und Siedlungswesen e.V. (German Development Assistance Association for Social Housing) was founded in 1969 and started its operations by providing non-profit consultancy services and training for members and functionaries of housing co-operatives. Later the organisation went into the field of direct project assistance in terms of funding, organisational development and technical support of low-income housing and infrastructure development in developing countries.
Since 1983 about 450 partnership programmes and projects in developing countries in the field of self-help housing, rehabilitation and resettlement, infrastructure development and income generation have been supported. Please visit our Website (in German) www.deswos.de or contact project@deswos.de for further reference.
Mutual Home Ownership (MHO)
Mutual Home Ownership (MHO) is a new form of tenure, being poineered by CDS Coops in the UK, to increase the supply of affordable intermediate market housing without requiring a major increase in capital investment from Government. See more detailed information about CDS plans here.
Rooftops Canada
Since 1984, Rooftops Canada has been providing technical expertise and leadership in low-cost housing and human settlements development around the world. Rooftops Canada was founded as the international development program of the Co-op Housing Federation of Canada. It now also works on behalf of the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association, and the Ontario and New Brunswick Non-Profit Housing Associations. Rooftops Canada is a non-profit, non-governmental organization.
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