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Spreads Housing and Social Change Across Uruguay

In America, America Latina, Emerging, Emerging World, altermundismo, alternative, cooperatives, globalization on January 23, 2008 by eliacin

FUCVAM (Uruguayan Federation of Housing for Mutual-Support Cooperatives) Spreads Housing and Social Change Across Uruguay by Michael Fox
It’s a social movement and a housing cooperative. A massive self-help program for the poor and a new way of life for thousands. With 20,000 member-families living in cooperatively owned homes in 400 communities across the country, it is one of the largest and most radical housing cooperative federations in the Americas.

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