MEET THE MEMBERS

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 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.

Mireia Font is fifty-eight years old and a dancer. His roots are in Barcelona, ​​where he has lived and worked, although he always longed that one day he would leave the city to live in nature in a community. Three years ago he decided to join Sostre Cívic and now lives in La Garrotxa and is part of the cooperative housing project in right of use El Turrós.

Aurora is sixty-nine years old, a retired journalist and lives in Barcelona. Throughout his life he has lived twice in communities and for years he had been thinking of trying again when he was older. It is now part of the project Walden XXI, the first senior housing cooperative in Catalonia, which will be located in an old renovated hotel in Sant Feliu de Guíxols. 

Alicia Conejero is sixty-four years old and retired. In 2016, she decided to make a change in her life that also involved housing and, for this reason, she became a partner of Sostre Cívic. More than a year ago, he left his rented apartment in the Gràcia neighborhood and moved to La Balma, where he lives with thirty other partners. Since then, their health and quality of life have improved thanks to community life.