FOR HOUSING COOPS
Institute for Studies of Housing and Space ·Slovenia
About this project
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><strong>Increasing inaccessibility of housing results in higher violation of the right to adequate housing in Slovenia.</strong> Landlords often give appartments only to well situated people, discriminating against foreigneres, low-income, students and non-employed persons. The rental contracts are often only provisional, payments hidder and non-transparent. </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><strong>Our main objective is to enable establishment of housing cooperatives in Slovenia and contribute toward a provision of affordable, safe and community-lead housing. </strong>We will involve diverse stakeholders in the process: initiatives for housing cooperatives, NGOs, civil initiatives, the Government of the Republic of Slovenia, the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning, municipalities and public housing funds, the general public, banks and financial funds. In the long run our indirect target groups, the younger adults and the elderly, are to benefit the most, as they are also the ones who are most exposed to the housing shortage and living in housing poverty. </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">We are going to:</span></span></p> <ul> <li style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><strong>Develop a housing cooperative model for Slovenia</strong> through a participatory process, necessary for establishment of tangible cooperative projects and serves as the basis for advocacy.</span></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><strong>Raise awareness, inform and activate the target groups</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">.</span></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><strong>Position the NGO sectors as the promoter and advocate for housing cooperatives.</strong> We will systematically connect and strengthen the NGO sector through training and mentorship.</span></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><strong>Contribute to the adoption of legislation and measures that will enable establishment of housing cooperatives</strong> through advocacy on the state and local level</span></span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify">Each project partner from Slovenia has a specific expertize that will help us to address the issue more in-depth. IPOP has vaste experiances in spatial planning, PINA in organization and moderation of group processes, Avanta Largo with communication campaigns while the PHF is involved as a critical stakeholder. The partner from Norwas has specific knowledge on housing coops.</p>
Bilateral cooperation results
The bilateral partner provided training on participatory decision-making processes and solution development.
Project partners
- IPoP – Institute for Spatial Policies Project partner· Slovenia
- Association for Culture and Education PiNA Project partner· Slovenia
- Institute Avanta Largo Project partner· Slovenia
- City of Ljubljana’s Public Housing Fund (PHF) Project partner· Slovenia