Berlin’s public advice desk for gemeinschaftliches Wohnen: SenSBW commissioned STATTBAU Stadtentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH to run the Netzwerkagentur GenerationenWohnen (since 2008).

  • What: free Erstberatung on self-organised, communal housing and project set-up; group formation and matching (Wohntische); networking with Kooperationspartner (housing companies, co-ops, land owners); public events and publications.
  • Who: anyone — eigentumsorientierte groups, rental projects, and Genossenschaften (incl. groups founding a new eG). No legal-form gate.
  • Money: no grant or loan; it is the on-ramp to berlin-ibb-genossenschaftsfoerderung-neubau-bestand, berlin-ibb-genossenschaftsfoerderung-anteilserwerb, berlin-ibb-wohnungsneubaufonds and the BIM Konzeptverfahren.
  • Open question (not a fact): whether Berlin subsidises paid Gründungsberatung for co-ops beyond this desk (e.g. via a Prüfungsverband) was not verified.