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Fuenlabrada

SHARE - Sustainable Housing Accommodation for a Regenerative Exchange

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Fuenlabrada

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

EUR 6 150 000
budget provided by ERDF and city funding over 3.5 years
158
city centre residents aged 65 years or over for every 100 aged 14 or under: a high ageing index
41%
share of dwellings in the city centre with accessibility problems
43%
dependency rate index in the city centre
20%
percent of young people who can afford housing
20
or more households will gain access to accommodation thanks to this innovative solution

Milestones

Set-up of project management and governance structures
Jul 2024
Launch of a new ‘competition of ideas’ for the Lifelong Housing Complex
Oct 2024
Governance and solidarity model set up – 4CU
Feb 2025
Program for the Early Protection of Autonomy (PEPA)
Nov 2025
Youth housing and community model design
May 2026
Community model launch, implementation and continuity
Nov 2026
1. Set-up of project management and governance structures
01 Jul 2024

Work starts on setting up the SHARE project’s management structures and governance framework 

2. Launch of a new ‘competition of ideas’ for the Lifelong Housing Complex
01 Oct 2024

Inspiring designs for building a Lifelong Housing Complex in a former school, based on NEB values 

3. Governance and solidarity model set up – 4CU
01 Feb 2025

The City Centre Community Care Unit coordinates various municipal areas, partners and relevant stakeholders 

4. Program for the Early Protection of Autonomy (PEPA)
01 Nov 2025

Bringing together the Lifelong Housing Complex and a community-led Local Care Ecosystem 

5. Youth housing and community model design
01 May 2026

The Intergenerational Solidarity Housing System will provide accessible housing and support to young and elderly residents

6. Community model launch, implementation and continuity
01 Nov 2026

Connecting generations, enabling young people to do voluntary work in return for reduced city centre rent 

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