Europe's housing, explained properly
Long reads with live data on the housing crisis, cooperative housing and turning empty offices into homes. Every number links to its source; every source sits in the library.
Deep dives
Why is it so hard to find a home in Europe?
Prices have come loose from incomes, empty buildings sit next to housing queues, and the people trying to move are the ones nobody counts. A guided tour of the crisis and its six drivers.
Housing that isn't for sale
Nearly eight million European homes are held in cooperative forms, from Zurich to Warsaw. What members actually own, why the model protects affordability, and why it has stopped growing where it is wanted most.
Turning empty offices into homes
Europe does not lack buildings; it lacks buildings in the right use. How much housing sits inside vacant offices, what a conversion costs and saves, which rules help, and the projects that have already done it.
A housing coop that crosses borders
Local cooperatives own the homes. A European cooperative brings the buildings, the patient capital and the shared platform. How the pieces fit, where the money flows, and what could go wrong.
Browse by topic
All topics →Crisis, Policy & Movements
Diagnosis, regulation and civic response to Europe's housing emergency
Cooperative & Community-led Housing
Alternatives to extractive real estate — collective, democratic and inclusive housing models
Buildings, Reuse, Climate & Construction
Adaptive reuse, architectural design and the climate transition for housing
Finance, Business Models & Innovation
Patient capital, non-speculative housing models and sector innovation
Then go and look
Every number in these reads comes from somewhere. Follow it into the data, or into the buildings.