WHAT IT IS

The Shelter Projekt is a participant-led housing platform.It works with tenants, residents, and communities to identify housing problems, document them clearly, and translate lived housing experience into practical solutions and informed housing decisions.By connecting grassroots housing experience with institutional processes, resources, and decision-makers, Shelter Projekt helps ensure that those most affected by housing conditions can meaningfully inform policy and system improvements.

WHAT WE DO

The Shelter Projekt works with tenants, residents, and communities to identify housing problems and turn lived housing experience into clearly documented, practical solutions, and informed housing decisions.By connecting grassroots knowledge with institutional processes, resources, and decision-makers, the platform helps ensure that housing policies and actions reflect the realities people experience and are facing in real-time.The approach is participant-led and incremental — strengthening housing systems step by step through collaboration, shared knowledge, and responsible action.

WHY IT MATTERS

Housing problems are often experienced locally but addressed through systems that sit far away from the people affected. The Shelter Projekt works to bridge that gap by connecting lived housing experience with the processes, resources, and decisions that shape housing systems.Exploring pilot partners, hosts, and institutional collaborators for 2026.CALL TO ACTIONThe Shelter Projekt is currently seeking participants, pilot hosts, and institutional collaborators for its 2026 -2027 pilot phase.

WHO ITS FOR

• Communities and tenant groups seeking clearer pathways to address housing challenges• Public and civic institutions working to improve national housing policy and accountability• Researchers and practitioners interested in participant-led approaches to housing systems• Funders and partners supporting fairer, more responsive housing solutions

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