A novel model for affordable, cooperative housing in Serbia

Ko Gradi Grad (Who Builds the City) formed in 2010

in Belgrade and is now one of the leading not-for-profit

organisations in the field of citizen-led housing initiatives

in Serbia. Our team has experience in project

management, multi-stakeholder facilitation and architectural

design. We address housing issues from several

directions, including legal advocacy and direct action,

or successful awareness-raising campaigns in 2016 and

2018 on the issue of housing affordability in Serbia.

The here presented “smarter building” cooperative

housing approach is the result of collective work including

more than 50 public meetings, working tables, site

visits, lectures with guest experts in relevant fields, from

Serbia and abroad. In 2014 our team won an award in

the European MILD Home (Modular, Intelligent; Low

Cost, D-I-Y) architectural competition. In 2017 Ko Gradi

Grad became one of the founding members of the MOBA

Housing Network, developing new ways to finance

and propagate housing cooperatives across Central and

South-Eastern Europe.

To deliver support for this novel approach throughout

Serbia, in 2018 we set up the platform Stambeni Pokret

(Housing Movement, stambenipokret.rs), both to introduce

the cooperative model and to offer resources to

like-minded groups.