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Housing Cooperatives in Rome: Navigating the Housing Regime

Magnusson McComish, Bernhardur LU (2026) SGEM08 20261
Department of Human Geography
Abstract
This thesis interrogates Rome’s housing cooperative sector, focusing on the challenges and opportunities housing cooperatives face in providing affordable housing for their members. It analyses Rome’s housing regime to present the housing context in which housing cooperatives operate. The thesis explores what housing affordability means within the eternal city, moving beyond a simple income ratio to address the multidimensional variables of housing affordability itself. By putting five illustrative examples of housing cooperatives in conversation with one another, ranging from self-recovery cooperatives to employment-based housing cooperatives, it highlights how the housing cooperatives navigate policy and use the cooperative form to house... (More)
This thesis interrogates Rome’s housing cooperative sector, focusing on the challenges and opportunities housing cooperatives face in providing affordable housing for their members. It analyses Rome’s housing regime to present the housing context in which housing cooperatives operate. The thesis explores what housing affordability means within the eternal city, moving beyond a simple income ratio to address the multidimensional variables of housing affordability itself. By putting five illustrative examples of housing cooperatives in conversation with one another, ranging from self-recovery cooperatives to employment-based housing cooperatives, it highlights how the housing cooperatives navigate policy and use the cooperative form to house their members. It demonstrates how housing cooperatives operate within Rome and the ways they embody tensions, limits, and possibilities of housing affordability in contemporary Rome. (Less)
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author
Magnusson McComish, Bernhardur LU
supervisor
organization
course
SGEM08 20261
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Rome, Housing Cooperatives, Housing Regime, Housing Affordability, Self-Recovery
language
English
id
9234738
date added to LUP
2026-06-10 11:16:28
date last changed
2026-06-10 11:16:28
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  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Housing Cooperatives in Rome: Navigating the Housing Regime}},
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