Housing
We promote and accompany the creation of new models of collective housing, adapted to the culture and needs of rural communities.
If the house is just a refuge of inclement, what makes the home the place where we find peace and strength to grow together?
Housing is not just a physical space, but a fundamental element to construct individual and collective dignity. In a context of real estate gentrification and speculation, where housing becomes commodity and displaced people from their own neighborhoods, this process fragments, disarticulates and isolates our communities. If we take no responsibility for this systemic process, the conflict will deepen, the identity will be threatened and communities will lose their sense of belonging, with effects that could take generations to go.
From Resilience.Earth, we accompany collective housing processes to develop regulatory frameworks that put neighborhood needs in the center. We help the administrations create conditions to ensure access to affordable and rooted homes in the territory, building a resilient social fabric. Gentrification not only moves people, but destroys the links between generations and fragments neighborhoods, making neighborhoods more difficult to be spaces of coexistence and mutual support. In such a context, we link housing with social equity and territorial resilience, to prevent speculation processes from continuing to impose on the community.
Fear of losing what we own can lead us to lose what really matters to us: the community. In many of our peoples, youth exile becomes increasingly present, with young people who cannot stay in their lands and neighborhoods because of the lack of affordable housing. If we do not change the concept of property to adapt it to collective needs, we will not only lose territory, but also the human relationships that connect us. We accompany collective housing processes, such as housing cooperatives in cession of use and participate in participatory research-action to experiment with new models of shared housing to regenerate our communities and evolve private property. Thus, housing becomes the social regeneration matrix, where communities can grow and face social, environmental and cultural challenges collectively.
“Resilience Earth for me is a group of close people who show us inspirations and distant methods. So they help us to broaden the look and advance more focused.”
- Uli, Housing Cooperative El Turrós
