Living building while sharing some space and resources, create real solidarity in a neighborhood-sized project combines usability, accountability, cost savings, help, ecology and democracy. This is what the future residents of the Village vertical , an association bringing together a dozen households, established in 2005 in Villeurbanne.
The villagers will collectively own their building, and tenants of their homes as part of democratic prohibiting any speculation and profit.
This type of group housing has been created to meet the multiple economic, environmental and social by providing innovative solutions: kitchen, laundry room, bed and breakfast, and photovoltaic production carsharing ! After resolving the legal and administrative difficulties, the car-sharing service Lyon Autolib should locate in the vertical village by renting two parking spaces.
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