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Title Rental and Co-operative Housing - A Necessary Complement to Ownership Day / Time Monday, June 19th / 16:30 - 18:30 Room MR13 Event Description Part 1: The trend, today, is privatization of social and public housing in developed countries. We witness how the state and the public sector step away from its responsibilities, leaving the issue of access to affordable housing to NGOs and the private sector. In developing countries, rental housing is often undervalued and not considered an alternative to ownership. We will argue rental housing is a valuable tenure to virtually every household and therefore, should constitute a substantial element in the housing sector of every society. Part 2: Cooperative housing, especially those using methods of self-management, self-help and self-construction, has been successful in achieving housing accessible for low-income persons. Mr. Gustavo D Gonzalez will, through positive experiences from Latin America, show how non-profit cooperative housing has contributed to the realization of housing rights and, also, discuss the obstacles facing this model. Session Language English Speakers (information as provided by host organization) Magnus Hammar, Secr Gen. IUT Gusatvo Gonzáles, Swedish Cooperative Centre; Martha J. Lewis, Tenants´ Rights Action Coalition, Van Sayed-Iqbal Mohammed, Org. of Civic Rights, South Africa   Contact Need more information about this event? Please fill the contact form Related Documents (in English and / or French) Host Organization International Union of Tenants and the Swedish Cooperative Centre Host Organization Description International Union of Tenants (IUT) is an NGO that was founded in 1926 in Zürich, Switzerland, with the purpose of safeguarding the interests of tenants, and promoting affordable healthy housing throughout the world. IUT has its Secretariat in Stockholm, Sweden. IUT is a non-partisan political organisation, working along democratic lines. IUT represents primarily national tenant organisations, but also secondarily regional organisations. As of January 2006, IUT had 55 members in 46 countries. IUT has Consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council and the ECE, Economic Commission for Europe - Committee on Human Settlements and Participatory status with the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France. Bi lateral projects: In 2005/2006 IUT established a Housing Information Centre in Belgrade. • The Swedish Cooperative Centre, SCC is a Swedish NGO working with international cooperation to fight poverty and injustice. It was created 1958 and work mainly with cooperative and other democratic local partner organizations. We have no political or religious affiliation. We currently work in 26 developing countries around the world with approximately 120 development projects and programs. Focus is Latin America, Southern and Eastern Africa and in East Europe. Main working areas are rural development, housing and habitat and financial services. Website (Organizer and partners) utangranser.se www.iut.nu www.ocr.org.za www.tenants.bc.ca

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