Prague is planning association and cooperative housing — Stavební forum
7/9/2022
The Prague municipality plans to start federal housing projects on five city plots. The councilors discussed the selection of two plots of land in Michli and one each in Vysočany, Lipenice and Libni yesterday, but they postponed the decision for the time being and the matter will be discussed again next week. The city is planning two construction models, in the first association its members will establish themselves and provide the construction themselves. In the second city, he chooses a development company and subsequently establishes an association to which he selects members.
The federal housing project is based on the model of the German so-called baugruppe, which is mainly used for the construction of smaller apartment buildings on city plots. According to earlier information, around 160 apartments are to be built on the first five parcels. On three of them, the city wants to proceed according to the first model, i.e. providing land to associations founded by Prague citizens. For the remaining two, construction would be organized by the city.
The municipality has already approved similar support, under which cooperative apartment buildings are to be built on municipal land. The first should be built in Radlická street in Prague 5, the city has already approved it. The support of cooperative and association housing is calculated on the fact that the city will provide its land for the construction of an apartment building through the right of construction for up to 99 years. In both cases, the subjects of the municipality will buy the land only after paying off the house itself.
CTK