Introduction
About urbaMonde
Convinced that inhabitants and users of urban spaces should be at the center of all processes that produce the city, urbaMonde’s mission is to support groups of inhabitants who implement community-led housing projects and who are committed to making their cities more sustainable and inclusive.
Founded in 2005 in Switzerland and in 2015 in France, This association aims to promote community-led housing locally and internationally.
Faced with the challenges of urbanization, climate change and growing inequalities, and in a global context where the unbridled privatization of public services and the advent of the financialization of cities are undermining the right to the city and the fundamental right to adequate housing, urbaMonde is committed to working alongside inhabitants, urban professionals and public authorities for a world in which all inhabitants have access to dignified, safe and affordable housing by becoming an actor in the transformation of urban space, understood in the sense of common good.
In this context, community-led housing is presented as a practice that enables the strengthening of the capacity of inhabitants, citizens and users of the city to organise themselves collectively and in solidarity, so as to plan, finance, build, manage and sustainably improve their living spaces at all levels of the city.