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Cooperative spirit shining bright in Berlin this December

In a train, on our way to Berlin: there are two important events for MOBA happening there this week.
First, tonight kicks off a gathering convened by Mietshäuser Syndikat, the German umbrella organization of self-organized housing (almost 200 of them) of non-profit type, with the aim of launching a European network (and founding a cooperative, SCE) of community-led housing organizations! Exciting, right? As a unique regional umbrella organization, MOBA members are invited to be one of the founders of Community spaces network. In addition to Ana Džokić and Marc Neeilen from Smarter building (Belgrade), Zsuzsanna Pósfai from ACRED (Budapest) and Goran Jeras from Cooperative for Ethical Financing (Zagreb) will be participating in this memorable meeting on behalf of MOBA.

Than, we will be part of a workshop: International financing of young housing cooperatives in Central and Eastern Europe held in Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin and co-organized with IWO Housing initiative Eastern Europe, MOBA housing, LiM Living Metropolises SCE, University of Jena.

Coming together to make an effort in creating better, affordable, community-led housing throughout Europe. Good times.

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Annual assembly – closing circles and opening new ones

November is the month for cooperative assemblies!
In our newly opened Center for New Housing Cooperatives in Belgrade, a working meeting and annual assembly of our European cooperative MOBA Housing SCE was held. We summarized where we were during the twelve months behind us (among other things at 7 international events), what we did, what we tried and also what 2024 brings. During next year we will hold a special focus on the establishment of the MOBA Accelerator, a fund that will support pilot projects of the new housing cooperative created by MOBA members.

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Workshop: International Financing of Young Housing Cooperatives in Central and Eastern Europe

When: 7th and 8th December 2023.
Where: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Thaer Institute.
Organisers: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, IWO Housing Initiative Eastern Europe, MOBA Housing SCE, LiM Living in Metropolises SCE, University of Jena
Goal: The main objective of this workshop is to kick off new networks and collaborations to support the institutional build-up of MOBA SCE and LiM SCE, as well as other emerging housing cooperatives in CEE. To do so, the event will give insights on current tendencies of housing cooperatives.

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Let’s talk about money: moderated planel during Vienna’s Urbanize! festival

As part of Urbanize! festival Predrag Milić moderated the panel “Let’s talk about money” where experiences were shared with cooperative housing initiatives from Austria and finance experts. With colleagues from the European cooperative MOBA Housing, the establishment of a regional fund (MOBA Accelerator) for the launch of a new housing cooperative in Southeast Europe was presented.

Part of the program was a visit to the first two residential projects of the habitAT network in Austria – Schlor and Bikes and Rails.

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On this work meeting our host is a – seagull : )

For the first time we held our work meeting in Decin (Czech Republic) and spent three intensive and inspiring days as guests of thriving Druzstvo Racek (Racek in Czech means ‘seagull’). The work of MOBA is crucial for the establishment of pioneering projects of a network of new housing cooperatives active in the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia and Slovenia. The existing housing offer in the region is aimed solely at individual home-ownership and tailored to the needs of nuclear families, even though there is a clear need to diversify the types of dwelling and the organisation of housing. Members of Racek shared: ”We are proud to be hosting such an important pioneering network and that we can be part of it.”

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Presentation of the report: “Catalytic capital investment as an enabler of affordable rental and cooperative housing in Central and South-Eastern Europe” (video)

MOBA and partnering organisations held the first presentation of the report “Catalytic capital investment as an enabler of affordable rental and cooperative housing in Central and South-Eastern Europe” on the 29th of March 2023 at 15.00 CET, online. We feel that this opens a new chapter in our work. In this text we share both the video presenation and this exciting new report.

You can view recording of the entire session (attended by 90 partcipants) here:

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Celebrating 100th International coops day

Today is 100th International Day of Cooperatives! Our European Cooperative Society MOBA Housing SCE celebrates it at the working session in Zagreb. Our hosts are our members Cooperative for ethical financing and Cooperative Open Architecture. Representatives of Right to the city (Zagreb), Periféria Központ (Budimpešta), Zadrugator (Ljubljana), Sdílené domy (Prag) and Ko gradi grad (Belgrade) are present as well.

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