Fuenlabrada, Spain
SHARE - Sustainable Housing Accommodation for a Regenerative Exchange
Central Fuenlabrada faces deteriorating and vacant housing, dying businesses and a high ageing rate. SHARE’s solution is a housing system based on intergenerational solidarity and repurposed spaces. This provides autonomy-maximising housing for elderly people in a repurposed school. And for young people, rehabilitated housing that was no longer meeting elderly owners’ needs. Linking participants to local resources, SHARE gathers municipal services for housing, welfare, elderly and youth, urban designers, and other diverse partners. Their goal: revive community life in an inclusive, transdisciplinary, sustainable, beautiful and efficient way.
Our main challenges...
Providing accommodation and personalised support for 20-40 senior homeowners. This involves setting up a Program for the Early Protection of Autonomy (PEPA).
Increasing the availability of rental housing in the city centre.
Increasing the proportion of young people actively participating in the community.
and proposed solutions
A former school is being rehabilitated as a Lifetime Housing Complex, designed to provide at least 20 long-stay homes for the 20-40 senior owners of apartments ceded to the Solidarity Housing System.
A Solidarity Housing System is being developed to house 40-60 young people in the city centre. This scheme requires elderly participants to provide their own homes.
In exchange for being part of SHARE and having efficient housing in the centre at an affordable cost, young beneficiaries will each participate in an estimated 10 hours of community engagement activities per month.
Key figures
Milestones
Work starts on setting up the SHARE project’s management structures and governance framework
Inspiring designs for building a Lifelong Housing Complex in a former school, based on NEB values
The City Centre Community Care Unit coordinates various municipal areas, partners and relevant stakeholders
Bringing together the Lifelong Housing Complex and a community-led Local Care Ecosystem
The Intergenerational Solidarity Housing System will provide accessible housing and support to young and elderly residents
Connecting generations, enabling young people to do voluntary work in return for reduced city centre rent
