The cooperative aims, through the mutual self-help of its members, to procure affordable housing and to build and acquire residential buildings or apartments, excluding any speculative intent. Depending on possibility and availability, the use of existing buildings should also be considered, thereby simultaneously contributing to the use of historical building fabric, the preservation of building culture, and the revitalization of village centers. The cooperative can also operate spaces for common uses and services in its buildings to enhance the living/location quality for the local population. It particularly pursues the purpose of promoting affordable housing in accordance with federal housing promotion legislation and corresponding cantonal and municipal regulations. The cooperative can avail itself of housing and property promotion assistance from the federal government, canton, and municipality. It can participate in companies and organizations with similar objectives and acquire membership in a national umbrella organization of non-profit housing cooperatives. The cooperative seeks to achieve this purpose through: acquisition, if necessary, renovation and enhancement of real estate from existing building stock; construction of replacement new buildings that are gently integrated into the intact village landscape, if the existing buildings can no longer be renovated in an economically viable manner; acquisition of building land and building rights as well as construction of multi-family houses that are gently integrated into the intact village landscape, meet contemporary cooperative housing needs, and sensibly supplement the existing housing supply; careful and ongoing maintenance and periodic renewal of existing buildings; utilization of promotion instruments according to the federal housing promotion law or corresponding cantonal and municipal laws; management and rental of apartments on the basis of cost rent; use of renewable energies and application of sustainable renovation approaches within the existing possibilities; promotion of cooperative activities and common uses of individual rooms (e.g., common storage room); ideological and material support of efforts aimed at affordable and good housing.
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