Cooperative housing pioneers in Central and SouthEastern Europe: mainstreaming alternatives through translocal networks

• Authors: Corinna Hölzl
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Financing remains the most significant challenge for grassroots housing movements in Europe. This is particularly true for housing pioneers in semi-peripheral European countries, where not only is access to adequate financing limited, but appropriate regulatory frameworks and organisational and institutional capacities are also lacking. In response, translocal networks such as MOBA have emerged in Central and South-Eastern Europe to promote non-speculative housing alternatives and, particularly, to establish transnational solidarity-based financing for community-led housing. Against this backdrop, this paper analyses the transscalar strategies of MOBA in their efforts to challenge financialised housing practices.

Keywords

EN

de-financialisation; non-speculative community-led housing; translocal networks; Central and South-Eastern European countries; semi-periphery

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Critical Housing Analysis
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 115-130
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Corinna Hölzl

• Critical Housing Analysis, redakce,Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i. Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic