Collaborative Housing in a Pandemic Era: cross-country inter- and transdisciplinary evaluation, innovative approaches, human rights-based policy recommendations and capacity building

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that the failure to guarantee the right to adequate housing has had major consequences in Europe.

CO-HOPE focuses on conducting a mixed methods evaluation of the resilience and transformative capacities of collaborative housing projects and inhabitants in five European countries, co-creating participatory design approaches for future housing development, generating recommendations for policymakers, and implementing an international capacity building programme on collaborative housing that tackles the affordability-integration-health nexus.

To foster urban transformation capacities, non-profit organisations active in policy advocacy for adequate housing as well as universities working with capacity-building programmes are leading specific work packages.

The potential-oriented recommendations for policymakers and capacity building activities are expected to contribute to a shift in housing provision towards sustainable community-led projects.