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Grassroots housing models in Europe

Translocal networks, innovations, community

By: Corinna Holzl-Verwiebe (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 September 2026

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For years, we have been observing an increase in housing shortage in Europe, to which the public sector has so far failed to respond adequately. At the same time, there has been a steady growth in grassroots initiatives developing non-speculative community-led housing while joining forces across Europe. This edited collection focuses on the translocal networks interlinking these grassroots movements and explores their social innovations to support alternative imaginaries of housing and structures of solidarity. The book thus provides the first comprehensive overview of translocal grassroots housing networks in Europe and the housing models they propagate (including new co-operatives and community land trusts), while undertaking international in-depth analyses. It is arranged along inter- and transdisciplinary lines: In addition to researchers from the fields of human geography, housing studies, sociology, architecture and anthropology, the authors include practitioners from the NGO sector and grassroots activists.

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'Struggles and initiatives focused on the right to housing have a lot to learn from existing efforts to confront institutional barriers or to transform them. Potential opportunities of commoning and collaboration in community-led demands for housing arise today in Europe, as this timely and inspiring collection shows. And their contribution to the development of grassroots housing models is invaluable.'
- Stavros Stavrides, Emeritus Professor of Architectural Design and Theory, National Technical University of Athens; Author of Common Space: The City as Commons

'This volume offers a comprehensive, insightful, and timely account of Europe's grassroots housing movements, shedding light on their organisational diversity, transnational solidarities and innovative non-speculative models. Collectively, they advance critical pathways toward sustainable, community-oriented housing provision.'
- Darinka Czischke, Associate Professor in Housing and Social Sustainability, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

'This key volume examines grassroots, community-led housing models across Europe, showing how translocal networks advance affordability, sustainability, and community resilience. The book is essential reading for understanding housing as a communal right and resource, offering practical insights and inspiring directions for socio-ecological transformation and the future of housing.'
-Yuri Kazepov, Professor of Urban Sociology, University of Vienna

'This timely anthology on community-led housing arrives at a critical juncture. As housing, climate, and social crises converge while internationalism erodes, the book reveals how translocal networks teach cooperation through practice, advance socio-ecological transformation across borders, and build solidarity infrastructures challenging commodification. Essential reading for those building alternatives when cooperation is under threat.'
-Yiorgos Papamanousakis, Programme Lead - Community Led Housing, World Habitat

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