When a group of partners resident in Olesa de Montserrat, who have been promoting the cooperative housing model in the municipality since 2018, detected a building that a private developer started building years ago and that result of the real estate crisis of 2008 he stood still, they did not hesitate.
That's how he was born La Xicoira, a project with which we have recovered this disused private heritage that had been in the hands of a real estate fund, to fulfill the social function of housing from self-promotion with a logic of common good and non-profit.
WHAT IS THE BUILDING LIKE?
The building, located between Pau Casals and Colom streets, right in the center of the new Eixample of the municipality, had the structure, basements and external walls already built.
At the end of 2021, the property was acquired with the financial support of the Generalitat and the Març of 2022 the works began which have lasted 11 months. The work has focused on improving the building already built with better distribution of the homes and accessibility, also energy efficiency and the increase in insulation, centralized installations, and photovoltaic panels, and the work on the finishes of the housing for the entrance to live.
The project consists of a ground floor, three floors and an attic; i the homes are distributed on all floors of the building. Regarding collective spaces:
- On the ground floor there are two collective spaces, one designed for internal use and another, with direct access from Carrer Pau Casals, for use by the town.
- On the first floor there is a third communal space, in this case the communal laundry and the communal terrace.
Here you can consult the plans of the project.
The building has a air conditioning system (cold and hot) by centralized aerothermia using fan coils. It also has 24 photovoltaic panels under cover The works have made it possible to improve the ability conditions of the homes while working with the aim of achieving greater energy efficiency, achieving an A energy certificate.
LA XICOIRA, FULL OF LIFE
On October 6, 2023 we inaugurated La Xicoira, in an event headed by the president of the Generalitat Pere Aragonès, that claimed cooperative housing as an essential tool to grow the affordable housing stock. As he stated, La Xicoira "it will be another example of a new way not only of understanding housing, but of understanding society, where we want to recover collective living spaces for people without always being dictated by the market".
From that day, to La Xicoira live more than 30 people who share the same vision of community life and who are committed to recovering networks of mutual support between neighbors to, among all, put people at the center and the care of the group. This is what they said during the opening ceremony:
"We reject a capitalist system that wants to isolate us in our homes, that we are afraid of our neighbors and of tomorrow.
We have decided to recover the ties of neighborhood community that have been broken during the last decades".
YOU WANT TO LIVE A LA XICOIRA?
The project of La Xicoira currently it is full and without vacancies. If the project is canceled at any time, all members of the cooperative will be notified. We remind you that the main criterion when transferring the right to assign the use of a home is theseniority order a Sostre Cívic, as contained in article 14 of our statutes. If you are not yet a member, you can do so fromthis page!
And if you want to contact us with any questions or comments, you can write to us at info@sostrecivic.cat