de Nieuwe Meent
successful crowd-funding campaign raising 450.000€ for collaboratively realised social housing cooperation, 2020
script co-writing with organisation, videography, editing, communication  consulting



Access to housing in Amsterdam is increasingly difficult. For more and more people it has become impossible to buy a property with a mortgage. At the same time the social rent sector has shrunk beyond recognition, while the private rental market has sky-high prices.

Housing cooperatives offer an alternative model for accessible living, based on principles of collective ownership, solidarity and sharing. As members of a cooperative, people rent affordable apartments, run the association, and manage the property all at the same time. In this way, the building can never be divided into individual units and/or sold on the market.

The municipality of Amsterdam also sees the potential of cooperatives for a healthy and accessible housing climate in the city. The current city government, as announced in their Action Plan Wooncoöperatie, aims to deliver 7000 homes through the cooperative model in the next five years. De Nieuwe Meent is the second pilot project of this program. Its success should therefore also pave the way for more collective housing initiatives throughout the city.

check out de website of de nieuew meent to learn more about their amazing project that is reality since 2025 https://nieuwemeent.nl/en/financiering/