“Understanding Legal Frameworks for Cooperative Housing: Insights from the ILRAI Report” is a two-hour online webinar hosted by Cooperative Housing International (CHI) on 9 June 2026, focused on how legal and institutional frameworks shape the emergence, growth, and scaling of cooperative housing across countries.1 The event is built around findings from the International Legal Research and Analysis Initiative (ILRAI) report, which analyses cooperative housing law and practice in multiple jurisdictions.16
The webinar targets policy-makers, cooperative housing practitioners, lawyers, researchers, and movement leaders interested in how legislation and institutions can either enable or constrain cooperative housing development.1 It aims to clarify which legal conditions are most supportive, where gaps persist, and how different legal approaches influence sector development in diverse regional contexts.1
The programme runs from 15:00–17:00 CET and opens with a welcome and introduction by Andreea Nacu, CHI Secretariat Coordinator.1 A first substantive segment, “The Law on Cooperative Housing: Key insights”, features Julie LaPalme (report coordinator), Tomasz Marzec (lawyer and scholar at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland), Santosh Kumar (Director of Legislation at the International Cooperative Alliance and report coordinator), and Prof. Hagan Henry (Chairperson of the ICA Cooperative Law Committee).16
A second segment, “From research to practice”, connects the ILRAI findings to concrete national experiences, with contributions from Nigeria (Ajibola Akanji), the UK (Blase Lambert, Confederation of Co-operative Housing), and Chile (Mauricio De La Barra, Conavicoop).1 The event concludes with an open discussion and closing session, positioning CHI as a bridge between comparative legal research and on-the-ground cooperative housing practice.1