A decade of student-led housing activism, community, and co-operative living in the UK (+ now Ireland); celebrating resilience, solidarity, and the power of students to reclaim housing.

Edited by: Anke Schwittay (University of Sussex) and Scott Jennings (Student Co-op Homes) and collaborators.

Published in 2024 by University of Sussex / Student Co-operative Homes

This international gathering marked the second official meeting of the Pan-European Student Cooperative Housing Association (PESCHA), hosted in Geneva by urbaMonde in collaboration with Cooperative Housing International and PESCHA members.

One of our committee members was intervied by The Echo on the student accomodation crisis, and the use of private student accomodation as holiday accomodation during the summer, a time when postgraduate and foreign students still desparately need accomodation!

Published Saturday 24th June 2023 on EchoLive.ie

Read a report written by our committee members AJ and Iona on their trip to the National Gathering of Student Housing Co-operatives from UK & Ireland in Brighton!

Published May 2023 on SolidNetwork

A blog post our committee member Isabel wrote looking back on our trip to Switzerland for the Student-Led Housing Symposium in 2022!

Published Thursday 12th April 2023 on SolidNetwork

Tuesday 21st March 2023 Promotion for event: Read Here

UCC Express Coverage of event: Read Here

UCC Motley Coverage of event: Read Here

Diary entries from our committee members Cormac, Isabel and Jennifer on their trip to Switzerland for the Student-Led Housing Symposium in September 2022!

Published October 26th 2022 on the Co-operative Housing Ireland Website.