Housing Cooperatives
Founded in 1946, the Norwegian Federation of Co-operative Housing Associations (NBBL) is a national membership association representing 71 co-operative building and housing associations - counting 800 000 individual members and more than 400 000 housing units in close to 9 100 affiliated housing cooperatives.
Cooperative building and housing associations vary in size, counting anywhere from 100 individual members and upwards to 230 600. These associations, their members, the affiliated housing cooperatives and NBBL respectively, make up the Norwegian Co-operative Housing Movement.
With a population of 4,7 million, this makes NBBL the fourth largest membership-movement in the country. Represented in all urban areas, housing co-operative homes hold a significant share of the housing market in cities, in Oslo close to 40 %. The national average is 15 %.
An average Norwegian housing co-operative consists of approximately 50 homes per co-operative.