OUR SHARED VISION
The time is now. The place is Amsterdam.
We believe that houses should be for living, not for profit-making. In 2018 we decided to actually do something with this shared conviction.
de Nieuwe Meent is a housing cooperative rooted in the housing rights movement and branches towards an integrated urban commons of the 21st century.
This is why we call it de Nieuwe Meent (from the old Dutch word for Commons): because our cooperative is organised entirely around the principles of shared use and management of resources. By combining affordable housing, shared living, social care and solidarity economy, we contribute to a more sustainable, inclusive and fair society. On our journey we will build a seven-storey wooden complex to house around fifty people, we also hope to inspire many other cooperative experiments in Amsterdam and beyond.
https://nieuwemeent.nl/en/
