In the context of the housing crisis, the role of bottom-up initiatives can have a crucial role to react to the dysfunctionalities of both the housing market, and the public sector. There are many examples from the world of housing cooperative movements providing affordable and good quality housing through non-profit, membership-based, democratic institutions, in partnership with various private and public actors. In recent years, Periféria Center has been facilitating a similar movement in Hungary and in the broader context of Eastern Europe. Currently, our efforts are directed towards the running of two concrete subprojects the details of which are described below.
RENTAL HOUSING COOPERATIVES
Outcomes
2024. Pósfai Zsuzsanna, Jelinek Csaba, Mara Ferreri, Camila Cocina.
Radical Housing Journal 6(1), pp. 221-235.
2023. március 29. Pósfai Zsuzsanna, Jelinek Csaba, Ana Džokić, online.
September 1, 2022. Jelinek, Csaba. Antwerpen. "Inequality and the City" Conference of the European Association of Urban Historians
Rental Housing Cooperative Model in Hungary [Bérlői lakásszövetkezeti modell Magyarországon]
2020. Jelinek, Csaba and Zsuzsanna Pósfai. Periféria Working Papers 1.
The working paper provides a summary of our practical experience on the topic of rental housing cooperatives in Hungary. We provide an overview of the financial, legal, architectural/urbanistic and communal aspects of the potential framework, in which the implementation of a rental housing cooperative model in Hungary would be realistic. Besides analyzing inspirational examples from other countries, we also point out how the Hungarian regulatory framework should be modified in order to catalyze the spread of the model. The text introduces various Hungarian actors, who have been active in promoting and advocating for rental housing cooperatives in Hungary in the recent years.