Reviving the Egyptian cooperative housing through an integrated development framework

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Table 1. Cooperative housing alliance targets according to SDGs.

SDG Goal	Cooperative housing alliance target
1: Solutions to end poverty	Poverty reduction through affordable housing cooperative provision. Increase secure housing tenure with service access.
2: Zero Hunger	Enhance food supply chain due to tenure stability in co‑op. Increase to grow food through secure tenure for coops.
4: Ensure equitable quality education	Provide to households to educate about the co-‎op movement and principles, and vocational ‎training program.
5: Achieve gender equality	Reduction of violence in cooperative housing. Increase proportion of women in leadership within CHI organizations and gender diversity acceptance in cooperative Increase formal recognition of unpaid voluntary work. Increase equal rights for all types of housing tenure.
6: Ensure clean water and sanitation availability.	Availability of clean drinking water and cleaning purposes. Increase in cooperative units’ numbers ‎equipped with effective water treatment. Measures adopted in water conservation.
7: Ensure affordable clean energy.	Availability of clean electricity for cooperative units.‎ Increase cooperatives depending ‎on clean energy ‎relative to total ‎consumption.‎ Increase energy efficiency in housing cooperative.
8: Decent work and economic growth.	Economic growth of cooperative households ‎in the least developed countries.‎ Ratio of paid employment from housing cooperatives.
10: Reduced inequality	Raise awareness of the importance of inclusionary practices and cooperative equity values.
11: Resilient and sustainable cities	Increase access to adequate and affordable safe unit with protection ‎against weather events.‎ Increase using of technologies for sustainable and low-emission construction practices in housing cooperative.
12: Responsible consumption and production	Work on energy efficiency and waste management and anti-contamination practices to reduce the cooperative carbon footprint.
13: Take urgent climate action.	Prepare to face natural ‎hazards and disasters.
15: Life on land.	Apply stewardship practices for housing coop lands.

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Table 2. Cooperative housing alliance indicators.

SDG Goal	Cooperative housing alliance Indicators
No.1	Number of families accessed to affordable cooperative housing to relieve from poverty. Number of members securely and safely housed. Count of cooperatives units with access to acceptable water quality standards. Number of cooperative membership with property rights and secure ownership.
No.2	Number of residents have a sustainable diet or contributes their land to provide a fresh food system.
No.4	Number of coops providing information about the co-op movement. Number of families have access to quality schooling for children.
No.5	Number of households fleeing violence that are housed. Number of women cooperative member in leadership positions. Number of supporting policies for women. Amount of unpaid voluntary work time by gender. Number of cooperative units that adopt the voluntary work. Numbers of households escaping discrimination ‎and persecution. Count of housing cooperatives with legal ‎framework and policies support women’s ‎rights to land ownership.‎
No.6	Numbers of residents with access to clear water supplies, and effective wastewater treatment.
No.7	Numbers of cooperative houses ‎gaining access to electricity. Cooperatives proportion using clean energy relative to total consumption. Increased spending on energy-efficient property renovations. New-build coop proportion using energy-efficient ‎construction method.‎
No.8	Numbers of coops with economic well-being. Numbers of employees by housing cooperatives from all age groups. Value of employees’ equality in responsibilities and payment. Number of coops offering internships for youth.
No.10	Increase inclusive membership practices.‎ Number of units to support needs of refugees, people at risk, or indigenous ‎peoples. Number of employees doing paid work for housing coops ‎relative to the cost of living with dignity.‎
No.11	Count of flee residents from inadequate housing into cooperatives. Percentage of resilient projects for weather events. Ratio of used sustainable technologies and low-emission construction practices.
No.12	Ratio of increased renewable energy consumption. Number of coops using environmentally recycling and reusing programs. Number of cooperatives with carbon neutrality strategy.
No.13	Numbers of coops with prepared emergency plans. Number of associations with business continuity plans.
No.15	Numbers of coops creating habitats for wildlife Proportion of organically coop lands. Water conserve strategies through sustainable planting practices.

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Figure 1. Dwellings in newly constructed multi-family buildings by type of ownership (1971–2010).

Source: Swedish official statistics, Yearbook of Housing and Building Statistics, 2012

Figure 2. The top 10 city prosperity index containing Stockholm, Sweden.

Source: City Prosperity Index (CPI 2015)

Figure 3. Cairo CPI dimensions.

Source: UN Habitat, State of the World’s Cities Report 2012/2013: Prosperity of Cities, World Urban Forum Edition

Table 3. Proposed checklist from GRI guidelines to compare between housing cooperative models.

GRI Guidelines for Sustainability Reporting Related to Integrated Cooperative Housing			Indicators	Applied on models
				Sweden Model	Uruguay Model	Egypt Model
Economic		Economic performance	Total coops with business continuity plans	■	■	■
		Indirect economic impact	Employment rate	■	■	■
Environmental		Materials	Number of coops using energy-efficient method	■	-	-
		Energy	Proportion of cooperatives using clean energy	■	-	-
		Biodiversity	Proportion of coop lands with organically gardens	■	-	-
		Emissions, Effluents and waste	Total coops working ‎towards ‎carbon neutrality	■	□	-
Social	Labor practices	Labor management relations	Rate of interactions between stakeholders	□	■	□
		Training and education	Total housing coops offering Internships	■	■	■
	Human rights	Non-discrimination	Members’ diversity	■	□	□
		Associations Freedom	Number of members creating the cooperative	■	■	□
	Product Responsibility	Customer health and safety, privacy	Number of residents have property rights	■	■	□
		Marketing communications	Branding and advertisements	■	■	■

■ Good status □ Moderate – Low status.

Global reporting Initiative G4, 2013.

Figure 4. Integrated cooperative housing framework guidelines.

Source: Researchers

Figure 5. Set of standards for an initial framework for an integrated housing cooperative.

Source: Researchers