RoCoCo, short for Rotterdamse Coalitie voor Wooncoöperaties, is a housing cooperative coalition based in Rotterdam that supports residents who want to collectively develop and manage affordable homes without commercial landlords. It operates as a cooperative association rather than a traditional housing corporation or developer.
According to its own information, RoCoCo focuses on helping local groups start and organise wooncoöperaties: member-led housing associations that own buildings collectively, keep them permanently out of the speculative market and set rents to cover costs rather than profit. The building is owned by the cooperative association, not by individual buyers or an investor, and is not intended to be resold. Maintenance, use of shared spaces and internal rules are arranged by the members themselves.
RoCoCo positions itself as a network and support structure. It connects emerging housing groups in Rotterdam, offers information sessions, and uses the platform CrowdBuilding to make initiatives and meetings visible and to attract interested residents. People can sign up there to follow RoCoCo and see which groups are forming in different parts of the city.
The organisation also calls for volunteers to help with tasks such as organising events and supporting new groups, and can be contacted directly via email. Publicly available sources outside its own website do not add reliable details about its founding year, membership size, legal form or specific completed building projects, so only RoCoCo’s own description of its aims and working method can be confirmed.