In a context where the housing market is more strained than ever, any alternative that provides solutions to the housing emergency, however imaginative, is good news. This is the direction in which Sostre Cívic works, which advocates for cooperative housing: apartment blocks where residents, members of the cooperative, are neither owners nor tenants, but enjoy an indefinite right of use cession, with collective self-management and fees set at cost price, outside the speculative logic of the real estate business, with no possibility of purchase or resale.