Federabitazione, founded in 1954, is the Confcooperative's sector organization for the protection and representation of housing member co-operatives.
Mission
Federabitazione, within the framework of the general policy guidelines of Confcooperative, outlines sector actions dealing with direction, representation and protection of housing cooperatives. These tasks are implemented through the coordination of territorial sector structures.
In particular, Federabitazione :
a) expresses and promotes all activities intended to strengthen or favour the growth and re-qualification of the housing market, in urban contexts which take into consideration the needs of the community;
b) collaborates, as requested by territorial structures, to favour the promotion of member co-operatives or co-operative participation, identifying opportunities for development, and in preparing coordination strategies in relation to regional housing policy;
c) promotes, throughout the nation, vocational training initiatives for members, personnel, and the management of member co-operatives,
d) promotes, coordinates and directly carries out functions of assistance among the Regional Federations in order to foster the development of housing cooperatives in all Italian Regions, as well as the dissemination of positive experiences among the Regions;
e) provides constant and punctual technical, legal, economic and market information to the member co-operatives;.
It also provides the following services :
* consultancy and assistance to cooperatives in economic, financial, legal and organizational matters;
* search of funding through diverse channels;
* execution and publication of construction experimentation and research;
* promotional activities addressed to special users (the aged, young couples, students, foreigners, etc.).
Membership
The member cooperatives, which in theory could be founded by individual members without particular characteristics, operate mainly in a regime of assisted-subsidized construction, aggregating users consisting in the main of medium-low income families, with 2 or 3 children, which would otherwise be excluded from home ownership, whilst being prepared to save for long periods to reach this objective.
National and international framework
At the national level Federabitazione interacts with administrative and governmental structures at various levels involved in the development of housing policy, as well as with all those representative organizations in the sector. At the international level it is a founder member of CECODHAS which represents 47 national federations and organizations for social housing in 13 European countries, as well as the ICA housing Organization.
President: Ivo Cremonini
e-mail:federabitazione@confcooperative.it