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PRESS RELEASES

  • 2024

    19.02.2024

    Clau Mestra: Sustainability, care and coexistence

    Betevé

    13.02.2024

    Cooperative housing for young people

    RTVE

    15.01.2024

    Municipalities and cooperatives, an alliance for the affordability, sustainability and inclusion of housing in right of use

    Social.cat

  • 2023

    04.12.2023

    The night of the ignorant 3.0: Living in a cooperative housing

    CatRadio

    12.11.2023

    Brainstorm to make housing more accessible

    The Economic

    06.11.2023

    La Turra: Cohabitation, coliving, coworking

    EVA (TV3)

    30.10.2023

    Sostre Cívic fills its cooperative homes in El Rusc in Manresa

    Was born digital

    13.10.2023

    Sostre Cívic and the Tenants' Union join forces to build an alternative to real estate

    Network

    10.10.2023

    The president of the Generalitat inaugurates the cooperative housing of La Xicoria in Olesa de Montserrat

    Jornal.cat

    13.09.2023

    Cirerers: cooperative and ecological housing

    TV3

    16.07.2023

    El Turrós, the main wall of the rural co-housing

    Nexe

    26.05.2023

    TeleSur: Barcelona tries urban innovations in the midst of the housing crisis

    TeleSur

    17.05.2023

    Reusing gray water to reduce the consumption of cooperative housing buildings

    17.03.2023

    Living a dignified and active old age in an old spa

    11.03.2023

    "Added value": Housing cooperatives in right of use

    16.02.2023

    An inclusive blog: the option of a group of families to emancipate children with intellectual disabilities

    06.02.2023

    Sostre Cívic receives the Social Innovation Award from the European Commission

    16.01.2023

    The United Nations recognizes the work of Sostre Cívic in the cooperative housing sector

    10.01.2023

    The UN awards the housing cooperative Sostre Cívic

  • 2022

    26.08.2022

    First cooperative homes for the elderly in Catalonia: "We are a small revolution"

    https://www.ccma.cat/324/primeres-cases-cooperatives-per-a-gent-gran-a-catalunya-som-una-petita-revolucio/noticia/3180860/

    TV3

    25.07.2022

    Cooperativism for decent housing

    Diario de Barcelona

    19.07.2022

    Palafrugell and Sostre Cívic deliver the first cooperative social housing in accordance with the Emergency Committee

    Girona newspaper

    02.05.2022

    A cooperative will recover a disused building in Calonge to use it as housing for young people

    07.04.2022

    What are cooperative housing? The new model for living in community

    A&D Architecture and Design

    31.03.2022

    Barcelona opens the cooperative housing block of Cirerers

    Europa Press

    19.03.2022

    Co-living: a project to share life and make apartments cheaper

    https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4973252/0/covivienda-proyecto-para-compartir-vida-abaratar-pisos/

    20minutos

    14.02.2022

    Cooperative housing: strategic sector in the generation of the social market

    Barcelona.cat

    05.02.2022

    Countdown to enter to live in the cooperative building of the Cirerers

    https://beteve.cat/economia/compte-enrere-viure-edifici-cooperatiu-cirerers/

    Betevé

    27.01.2022

    Parliament takes the step to consolidate cooperative housing as a way to guarantee the right to housing

    Social.cat

  • 2021

    17.11.2021

    The La Floresta cooperative housing will be completed in 2022

    Sant Cugat Television

    30.10.2021

    Is there a third way to address the housing problem?

    Public

    31.08.2021

    "This is not just any flat"

    Point of Reference

    03.08.2021

    Josep Maria Ricart: "Nursing homes uproot you from your home, your neighborhood and your friends"

    Catalunya Radio

    22.07.2021

    Sostre Cívic promotes a cooperative housing project in Olesa

    north line

    20.06.2021

    The wood of Cirerers

    CAATEEB

    01.06.2021

    Bureaucratic and financing hurdles for co-housing cooperatives

    TV3

    27.05.2021

    Barcelona promotes the first co-housing for people with intellectual disabilities and the elderly

    Disability Journal

    26.05.2021

    Barcelona gives municipal land for the construction of social housing flats

    Catalonia Press

    15.05.2021

    About 200 people are concentrated in Barcelona for affordable cooperative housing

    Europa Press

    06.05.2021

    "Growing old in the company of well-known people and without being a burden to anyone"

    Realitat.cat

    05.05.2021

    Cooperative housing in Mollet

    TVE 2

    28.04.2021

    Neither buy nor rent: live in cooperative housing

    Betevé

    28.04.2021

    The challenge of the new additions to co-housing: "To accommodate we have to stop"

    Network

    03.04.2021

    The tallest wooden building in Spain that wants to change the housing model

    NOW Balearic Islands

    22.03.2021

    Princesa49: "We are in the center of the city, at the heart of speculation"

    The Cugatenc

    01.03.2021

    Walden XXI in La tarde en 24h

    RTVE

    17.02.2021

    Against the commodification of old age: Walden XXI and Can 70

    Nexe

    05.02.2021

    The construction of large buildings made entirely of wood is widespread

    https://www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/telenoticies-comarques/sesten-la-construccio-dedificis-de-grans-dimensions-fets-totalment-de-fusta-i-altres-materials-sostenibles/video/6082834/

    TV3

    02.02.2021

    Housing project of Sostre Cívic in Palafrugell

    https://www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/telenoticies-comarques/projecte-dhabitatge-de-sostre-civic-a-palafrugell/video/6082132/

    TV3

    21.01.2021

    "The raison d'être of Sostre Cívic is to respond to people's needs, not to the market"

    Barcelona + Sustainable

  • 2020

    04.12.2020

    The Can Paler cooperative project will build 39 homes in Cardedeu

    Catalunya Radio

    11.11.2020

    Clau Mestra i Sostre Cívic: "If there is public collaboration, cooperative housing is more affordable"

    The Cugatenc

    19.10.2020

    Added value - Housing cooperatives in right of use

    https://www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/telenoticies/valor-afegit-cooperatives-dhabitatge-en-cessio-dus/video/6064970/

    TV3

    29.09.2020

    Cooperative housing on municipal land: another alternative to the lack of accessible flats

    https://www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/telenoticies-comarques/lhabitatge-cooperatiu-en-sol-municipal-una-alternativa-mes-a-la-manca-de-pisos-accessibles/video/6061759/

    TV3

    03.08.2020

    A refuge to grow old together

    El Periodico

    Can 70
    06.07.2020

    Can 70: "We want to age independently and healthily"

    The Sun Factory

    22.05.2020

    Cooperative housing, a social need that is highlighted in times of coronavirus

    Network

    03.03.2020

    Transforming the environment: the impact of housing cooperatives in cession of use

    social value

    10.02.2020

    The refuge for the elderly in their last home

    El Periodico

    07.02.2020

    Cooperative shelter

    The Fura

    28.01.2020

    Princesa49 in 'The good things in life'. Chapter 4: “Getting Home”

    Barcelona.cat

    07.01.2020

    Self-managed housing to control the abusive real estate market and its repercussions on nature

    Chaos on the net

    06.01.2020

    Walden XXI project: the dream of a community retirement in Sant Feliu

    Girona newspaper

  • 2019

    03.12.2019

    A former hotel, a senior community

    https://www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/els-matins/un-antic-hotel-una-comunitat-per-a-seniors/video/5973511/

    The Mornings (TV3)

    23.11.2019

    Neither rent, nor buy: the alternative of cooperative housing

    Solidaris (Catalunya Ràdio)

    06.11.2019

    WALDEN XXI, a senior housing cooperative

    AraCoop

    30.10.2019

    Catalonia shows that another economy is possible

    The jump

    10.10.2019

    Senior cohousing in Spain and the new social intervention professionals

    Psychology Studies and Education Sciences Blog - UOC

    07.10.2019

    Cohabitation, a change of model

    https://www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/tot-es-mou/el-cohabitatge-un-canvi-de-model/video/5932206/

    TV3

    27.09.2019

    Work begins to build a block of cooperative housing in Poblenou where 20 families will live

    Social.cat

    27.09.2019

    The building works are underway La Balma, of cooperative housing, in Poblenou

    https://beteve.cat/economia/habitatge-cooperatiu-la-balma-poblenou/

    Betevé

    26.09.2019

    Work begins to build a block of cooperative housing in Poblenou

    Catalonia daily

    22.09.2019

    Living an active old age in community

    The jump

    17.09.2019

    Walden XXI, a project to live an alternative, active and self-managed old age

    Catalunya Radio

    15.09.2019

    Cohabitation, my house is the whole building

    Diari Ara

    29.08.2019

    Walden XXI: cooperative senior cohousing project

    Olot TV

    05.08.2019

    Cooperative housing: alternatives for access to housing with reasonable conditions

    Catalunya Radio

    30.07.2019

    Housing co-operatives: the best of buying and the best of renting

    Was born digital

    26.07.2019

    Award for the energy rehabilitation of Princesa49

    Old City Television

    12.07.2019

    Sant Feliu will have around 27 co-operative co-housing apartments for seniors

    TV Costa Brava

    11.06.2019

    A municipal agreement with a cooperative encourages social renting in Sils

    The Punt Avui

    09.06.2019

    TEDxSantFeliuLlobregat Collective property

    TED Talk

    29.05.2019

    A dyke against real estate speculation

    CTXT

    08.05.2019

    The truth hunter: retirement

    RTVE

    07.05.2019

    Sostre Cívic will turn the old Longarón teachers' house into social housing

    We are Mollet

    25.04.2019

    The five types of houses where you will live in the future

    I found it

    12.04.2019

    Cooperate to live as you want

    Social.cat

    09.04.2019

    Sostre Cívic VEU Palamós as an ideal setting for cooperative social housing

    Radio Palamós

    04.04.2019

    A dozen entities promote a European initiative to facilitate access to housing

    La Vanguardia

    26.03.2019

    The proposals for living in the transformation

    FACTS Coopera

    25.03.2019

    The cooperative Sostre Cívic buys a building with 11 homes in Martorell

    Mailbox

    22.03.2019

    The night of the wise

    Terrassa Terrace

    21.03.2019

    Sostre Cívic buys a building to boost a cooperative housing project

    the far

    18.03.2019

    The cooperative housing project in the Casas dels Mestres has been derailed

    All Sant Cugat

    Living space
    11.03.2019

    The senior seed group Espai de vida en Ràdio Castelldefels

    Radio Castelldefels

    06.03.2019

    A dozen organizations coordinate to promote cooperative housing in Camp de Tarragona

    CoopCamp

    25.02.2019

    Calonge wants to get 250 flats for social rental

    La Vanguardia

    18.02.2019

    A mandate awaiting concretization of the urban farmhouse in the houses of the teachers

    The Cugatenc

    15.02.2019

    Palamós proposes the construction of cooperative social housing

    TV Costa Brava

    14.02.2019

    Sostre Cívic blames the city council for the delays in the La Floresta urban farm project

    Sant Cugat TV

    14.02.2019

    The City Council makes it clear a Sostre Cívic that the Teacher's Houses project continues

    Cugat.cat

    14.02.2019

    The "ordeal" of the Casas dels Mestres de la Floresta

    All Sant Cugat

    07.02.2019

    Cooperative housing

    Anoia Daily

    24.01.2019

    Walden XXI, the senior cohousing project that promotes active aging in company

    Between majors

    18.01.2019

    A place to live all your life where the neighbors are family

    Diari Ara

    Walden XXI project building
    15.01.2019

    Grow old with company

    Catalunya Radio

    08.01.2019

    The Jecsalis hotel in Sant Feliu will have apartments for the elderly

    The Punt Avui

    08.01.2019

    Cooperative housing also reaches the elderly

    Zero wave

  • 2018

    17.12.2018

    La Constructiva, the first non-profit service cooperative

    Catalunya Radio

    14.11.2018

    Cooperative blow to the commercialization of housing

    The Direct

    12.11.2018

    Neither buy nor rent housing: use and share

    eldiario.es

    27.10.2018

    The right of use model, the current bet of housing cooperatives

    Daily Jornada

    15.10.2018

    From plot to commune: this is the first co-housing building in Barcelona

    Idealistic

    04.10.2018

    Seniors united to be masters of their old age

    Diari Ara

    29.09.2018

    Barcelona co-housing shows their projects to their neighbors

    Betevé

    19.09.2018

    They want to convert a hotel in Sant Feliu into apartments for the elderly

    The Punt Avui

    14.09.2018

    Jordi Camell: "We must age actively and collectively"

    Surtdecasa.cat

    21.08.2018

    More roof for social or cooperative flats in Sant Feliu

    The Punt Avui

    14.08.2018

    They will enable fifteen homes in two abandoned buildings in Solanell

    Lleida.com

    02.08.2018

    The 14 flats for young people in Calonge will open their doors in the second quarter of 2019

    Radio Capital

    01.08.2018

    The senior co-housing project in Sant Feliu already has a group

    Radio Capital

    31.07.2018

    The residents of the first co-housing building in Barcelona are about to move in

    TV3

    18.07.2018

    the factory El Catllar it will be the first cohabiting 'senior' housing in Catalonia

    La Vanguardia

    12.07.2018

    Cohousing, the slow revolution of housing cooperatives

    I found it

    11.07.2018

    They will recover an old Catllar factory complex for cooperative housing

    Daily Month

    11.07.2018

    Fàbrica del Catllar will become the first cooperative senior housing development in Catalonia

    Tarragona21 newspaper

    20.04.2018

    Solution to the lack of housing: cooperative flats on municipal land

    TV3

    16.04.2018

    Cooperative housing in Catalonia

    Catalunya Radio

    01.04.2018

    The urban masovería, an alternative for young people facing the difficult access to housing

    La Vanguardia

    17.03.2018

    Open the door to cooperative housing and administration with social economy

    Girona newspaper

    13.03.2018

    Sostre Cívic and the City Council of Calonge and Sant Antoni promote cooperative housing for young people

    Social.cat

    13.03.2018

    They promote a cooperative housing project in Calonge

    Radio Capital

    21.02.2018

    The first block of cooperative housing given by the Barcelona City Council is finalizing works

    To the Day

    21.02.2018

    An 'anti-speculation' model in Princesa49

    El Periodico

    18.02.2018

    Cohabitation to share life and services or to retain young people

    Girona newspaper

    29.01.2018

    12 entities dealing with housing

    Network

    22.01.2018

    New cooperative housing project in right of use in Cardedeu

    Radio Television Cardedeu

    18.01.2018

    Sostre Cívic promotes a new cooperative housing project in right of use in Cardedeu

    The new 9

    15.01.2018

    For two and a half years, he leased three flats to six young people in exchange for rehabilitating them

    secret

    01.01.2018

    Another way to live

    Metropolitan Barcelona

  • 2017

    31.12.2017

    Housing cooperatives: building public community

    nose

    30.12.2017

    Collaborative housing, the alternative to nursing homes for the elderly

    eldiario.es

    19.12.2017

    Sostre Cívic and the Training and Work Foundation in the thirteenth program of the Badalona Tres60

    XES

    10.11.2017

    Cooperative housing: when ownership becomes collective

    Made in Sant Feliu

    11.09.2017

    El Catllar will save the abandoned factory with housing

    La Vanguardia

    10.08.2017

    Interview to Sostre Cívic: how to change the housing access model

    Pressenza

    13.07.2017

    Supporting cohousing initiatives

    trust

    10.07.2017

    They will study the construction of cooperative housing

    All of Mataró

    27.06.2017

    The first urban farmhouse project in Lleida, ready to "change the world"

    Lleida.com

    13.06.2017

    Sostre Cívic will manage a building in Ciutat Vella in exchange for rehabilitating it

    Betevé

    12.06.2017

    Cooperative housing, an incipient movement also among the elderly

    Betevé

    15.05.2017

    Barcelona's new push for cooperative housing

    La Vanguardia

    21.04.2017

    Ciutat Vella starts its first cooperative housing project in right of use

    Barcelona City Council

    Building Princesa49
    20.04.2017

    Ciutat Vella begins its first cooperative housing project

    La Vanguardia

    03.04.2017

    Without emotions there is no cooperation

    El Crític

  • 2016

    19.12.2016

    'Cohabitation' in Barcelona

    El Periodico

    25.10.2016

    Round table and debate: international experiences of cohabitation

    Barcelona City Council

    28.09.2016

    Sostre Cívic expands horizons with the impulse of senior co-housing

    The Journal of the Work

  • 2015

    04.06.2015

    If there are anyone's houses

    fourteen.cat

    25.02.2015

    The 'cohousing': another model of life for active old age

    La Vanguardia

  • 2014

    23.05.2014

    SostreCívic: a housing cooperative

    Network

    04.05.2014

    Housing cooperatives in right of use, an alternative to access to housing

    TV3

    21.02.2014

    The Scandinavian model of owner-occupied housing takes root in Catalonia

    La Vanguardia

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