abstract
Since the early 2000’s in France, new self-organised forms of collective housing provision has been developing and researched from different perspectives. From a social standpoint, it appears that these new experiments have been mostly led by very homogeneous groups, with high cultural and social capital. This observation brings up a new research question concerning the potential of social inclusion or diversity in these new housing initiatives.
To what extent is the pioneer model of collaborative housing transferable to a wider range of household types ?
Could it be developed in the social housing sector ? What are the experiments in other European contexts ? What should we learn from the cross-national comparisons ?