Community Housing

●       Description: These are cooperatively owned, managed, and lived in homes built for a low cost through open-source design, 3D Printing, and local off site “mini-factories”.

●       Features

○       Affordable customised housing

○       Commons living areas for leisure, socialising, and shared decision-making

○       Culturally and climate-adapted architecture and reconstruction, biomimicry

○       A physical hub for people to cocreate designs and print, either to enrich public spaces (recreation and sports facilities, art installations, etc.), or use and/or contribute to the global pool of design commons for socially just and ecological building and renovation models (housing, ‘tiny houses’, shared utilities – public kitchens, etc.)

○       Community-led house sharing platform (tourism on community’s terms) with proceeds going into impactful community projects chosen democratically by its members.

●       Examples in Belfast

○       Factory-made homes help tackle N Ireland housing shortage

●       Real-world examples:

○       Wikihouse,

○       Hexayurt

○       Fairbnb

○       Cooperación Comunitaria (Mexico)

○       Cloughjordan Ecovillage (Ireland)