Following on from the self-help and housing struggle movements since the 1970s, housing projects want to confront conventional housing policy with alternatives that are \"colourful, lateral and different\". The goals are manifold, including the revitalization of the cooperative movement in the sense of self-management and self-initiative (long-term withdrawal of housing from the speculative and hereditary stream); the promotion of housing satisfaction through more identification with the apartment and the living environment; the promotion of resident participation in the planning and management of housing; the development of self-determined neighborhoods to promote solidarity and build social networks.<\/p>\n
Quite a few sustainable settlements have either emerged from a housing project group or have been organised as part or as a whole as a housing project. There are numerous portals about housing projects. This web directory includes in particular projects which, in addition to the social and community aspects, have also implemented or want to implement ecologically more far-reaching objectives.
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