MEET THE MEMBERS

Mireia Riera is forty-eight years old and is a founding member of the cooperative. Artichoke, focused on education through play. Mireia grew up in Can 17, a community housing project, and has always wanted her children to live in a community as well. She will be able to fulfill her wish very soon, when the works are finished in Cal Paler Nou, in Cardedeu, a project of which she is part of the driving group and is a living partner.

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Marina Codina is thirty-four years old and a biologist. She is a neighbor of Poble-Sec (Barcelona) and different groups and popular social movements in the neighborhood have always been involved. Since 2015 it has been part of the seed group La Corrala, one of ours seed groups, formed by expectant partners a Sostre Cívic who are waiting for an opportunity to start building a life together. The objective of La Corrala is to stay rooted in the neighborhood.

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Carme is sixty-one years old, she is a mother and she works in early childhood education. He is from Barcelona, ​​but he was born into a mountain family, and left the city in search of nature. He currently lives in Rubió, a rural municipality in the Anoia region, from where he hopes to be able to move to Solterra, in Sant Hilari Sacalm, one of specific housing projects for the elderly de Sostre Cívic, of which it is part as a partner of the driving group.

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Within Sostre Cívic there are very diverse profiles and there is not just one way to be a member. Four years ago Marina Potrony is a working member of the cooperative, taking on a role that goes beyond the labor dimension.

She has been working as an administration and accounting technician since the spring of 2018, but the world of cooperatives and the social economy were not unknown to her when she started. it was councilor for the areas of Financial Services, Participation and Housing in her town, Navàs, and lives with great satisfaction working on a project like that of Sostre Cívic, aligned with their ideals and values.

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Anna Corrons is 62 years old, and has been part of it for eight years Sostre Cívic. She is a mother and grandmother, and a pensioner after a professional life in the public administration. Since 2015 is part of Can 70, which will be the first cooperative senior housing in Barcelona, ​​which plans to start construction of its building in the Sarrià neighborhood this 2024.

Mercedes is thirty-nine years old and about six years ago she arrived at Sostre Cívic through activism. She is one of the members of the Caliu Association, which aims to promote cooperative housing in Badalona, ​​his city, and works in a public policy consultancy that he co-founded with two colleagues in 2019. Currently, he is part of Sostre Cívic to Olos technology expectant partner and her expertise in gender issues has led her to be one of the participants in the creation of the Protocol for preventing and addressing sexist and LGTBIQ-phobic violence of the cooperative.

Benjamí is forty-seven years old and is one of the people who in 2026 will come to live in El Cairó, the first cooperative housing project in Granollers. He knew Sostre Cívic for some time and, four years ago, when this project began to be promoted, he decided to become a partner. He is now part of the governing council of the cooperative, from where he has been able to take a broader perspective of everything that is done. EHis work project is Granollers Pedal, an association that promotes cycling and with which Sostre Cívic is developing a unique sustainable mobility project.

Pepa Rocha is sixty-six years old and retired. In 2019, she decided to become a member of Sostre Cívic because he wants to live in a community away from real estate pressure. She is one of the future neighbors of the largest cooperative housing project done so far in Catalonia and Spain, which includes an inclusive community accompanied by the TEB cooperative group of up to 24 people with intellectual disabilities.

El Pol is thirty-two years old and has always lived in the municipality of Calonge and Sant Antoni, in the Baix Empordà region. He has been living in La Sala, the first cooperative housing project in right of use for young people that exists in the country. In an environment of job insecurity and a real estate market focused on tourism, and with the collaboration of the Sant Antoni i Calonge City Council, we rehabilitated a disused building owned by a financial institution in 2022 to put provision of fourteen homes for the young people of the village with the aim of offering them an affordable and dignified alternative to emancipate themselves.

In June 2014, residents of the Floresta neighborhood in Sant Cugat joined together to denounce the lack of accessible housing and the collective 6 Keys occupied Les Casetes dels Mestres, a disused building owned by the municipality. Within this process, Sostre Cívic reached an agreement with the City Council and pushed Clau Mestra, a cooperative housing in right of use managed by Sostre Cívic. Antonio is one of the people who has lived there since the beginning of this 2023, he is fifty-seven years old, works as an industrial maintenance technician and has been one of the key people in the self-build housing project.