More affordable housing
for Luxembourg!
Eist Neit Wunnen Agence
MEI BEZUELBARE WUNNRAUM FIR LËTZEBUERG!
Housing cooperatives have existed abroad for over 100 years. They are not about speculation or "added value," but about an affordable home. A home that you can shape together with others. A home that suits you. A home for your future.
A few courageous pioneers are already in the process of implementing the first housing cooperatives, but for the model to truly work, there is us: The “Eist Neit Wunnen Agence” (English: Our New Housing Agency). We advise and support everyone who is interested in founding a housing cooperative or joining one, and we help municipalities in tendering their land for cooperatives and guide them through the process.
NEWS & HISTORY OF THE AGENCY
03.2026 | The Chamber of Deputies unanimously adopts a motion from the LSAP to better support housing cooperatives in Luxembourg in the future.
02.2026 | The Housing Committee of the Chamber of Deputies discusses the future of housing cooperatives.
01.2026 | The Eist Neit Wunnen Agence Sarl-S S.I.S. is officially founded.
12.2025 | UniLU organises a Round Table on the topic of cooperatives with Claude Meisch, Paulette Lenert, Antoine Paccoud and David Hiez.
10.2025 | The Eist Neit Wunnen Agency is granted SIS status by the Ministry of Labour.
10.2025 | The winning group for the plot at Belval Sud is announced: a group called CO-OP 01. Since then, they have been supported by us.
07.2025 | The project of the Eist Neit Wunnen Agency is presented at the Ministry of Housing.
05.2025 | The idea of the Eist Neit Wunnen Agence (ENWA) is born. The design and preparation for ENWA begin.
05.2025 |Agora publishes its call for projects for a housing cooperative at Belval Sud.
04.2025 | The first "For Future Members Only" workshop is held at LUCA.
03.2025 | The exhibition "Our New Housing – An Invitation to Cooperate" holds its vernissage at LUCA (Luxembourg Center for Architecture).
03.2025 | The platform "For Future Members Only" goes online.
04.2024 | The doctoral research is presented at the Ministry of Housing.
12.2023 | Céline Zimmer defends her doctoral thesis "Ein Ditter Wohnungssektor für Luxemburg – Emanzipation von Markt und Staat in der Wohnversorgung" (A Third Housing Sector for Luxembourg – Emancipation from Market and State in Housing Provision).
04.2023 | The survey "Eist Neit Wunnen" goes online. Around 1,300 people participate, of whom 39% say they would like to live in a housing cooperative. The name "Eist Neit Wunnen" (”Our New Housing”) is born.
WHY AN “AGENCY”?
In the real estate context, an "agency" is known as a (usually expensive) service that is supposed to help you find a home. However, the services of ENWA go far beyond that.
“Agency” is better understood here in the sense of its etymological origin. The Latin verb agere means "to set in motion." In English, the word agency has a double meaning. It means both "a person or organisation that acts on behalf of others or offers a specific service" and "the capacity to act".
CONTACT
Céline Zimmer
cz@eistneitwunnen.lu
Instagram: forfurtermembersonly
Donation:
Eist Neit Wunnen Agence
Sarl-S SIS Social Impact Company
LU73 0099 7800 0157 0472
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UPCOMING EVENTS
An impossible dream? Paths to homeownership in Luxembourg
Luxembourg Times
Unicity, 23A Rue de Hollerich, L-1741 Luxembourg
22.04.2026 at 18:30
10x6 – Architecture Next Gen
Paperjam
Luxembourg, Luxexpo
28.04.2026
WHO IS BEHIND ENWA?
Céline Zimmer is a researcher and architect. In February 2024, she founded the studio Less Yellow together with Florian Hertweck. In January 2026, she was selected together with her team to curate the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 20th Architecture Biennale in Venice.
Céline studied architecture in Trier and Hamburg before returning to Luxembourg. In 2020, she began her doctoral research, which she defended in 2023. Her thesis focuses on the Luxembourg housing crisis and how housing cooperatives can offer a response to it by building decommodified, long-term affordable living spaces.
Since her work at the university, Céline has been advocating to making housing cooperatives a reality in Luxembourg. In March 2025, she curated the exhibition "Our New Housing – An Invitation to Cooperate." Since May 2025, she has been accompanying the Agora project, where a plot of land was allocated to a housing cooperative in the new district "Belval Sud."
As more and more people came to her with questions and ideas for housing cooperatives, Céline began in May 2025 to think about setting up an advisory structure. She drew inspiration from examples abroad, such as the Mitbauzentrale in Munich. On 26 January 2026, she officially founded the Eist Neit Wunnen Agency in the form of an SIS (social impact company), of which she has been the manager ever since.
A BIG THANK YOU
The fact that housing cooperatives in Luxembourg are being actively discussed today, and that ENWA has been established, is the result of a collective effort.
Special thanks go to: All the politicians who have championed the model; all those interested in it; Agora, for taking a courageous step; all the CO-OP 01 pioneers; all the journalists reporting on the project; and specifically Eric Weirich, Cédric Metz, Paul Matz, Maribel Casas, Florian Hertweck, Caroline Faber, David Hiez, Jorge Teixeira, Claire Faber, Jessika Maria Rauch and Paulette Lenert.
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION)
Ein drittes Standbein für den Wohnungsmarkt, Paulette Lenert, Tageblatt (18.03.2026)
L’habitat coopératif reste à inventer au Luxembourg, Geneviève Montaigu, Le Quotidien (14.12.2025)
Wunnkooperativen – e Puzzlestéck am Kampf géint d’Logementskris?, Dany Rasqué, RTL (10.12.2025)
Group moves toward Luxembourg’s first housing cooperative in Belval, Lucrezia Reale, Luxembourg Times (04.11.2025)
Wohnungsnot in Luxemburg: Keine Fatalität, sondern hausgemacht – Ein Plädoyer für ein Umdenken, Paulette Lenert, Tageblatt (14.10.2025)
Luxembourg grants land for cooperative housing for first time, Lucrezia Reale, Luxembourg Times (15.05.2025)
Baugenossenschaften, Maurice Molitor, 100,7 (28.04.2025)
Les coopératives, une solution pour créer du logement abordable, Céline Coubray, Paperjam (18.04.2025)
Wie eine Architektin den Wohnungsmarkt neu erfinden will, Jean-Philippe Schmit, Luxemburger Wort (17.04.2025)
Is Luxembourg ready to rethink homeownership?, Lucrezia Reale, Luxembourg Times (25.03.2025)
Wohnraum statt Rendite: Genossenschaften als Schlüssel zur Lösung der Wohnungskrise, Carole Theisen, Tageblatt (15.03.2025)
Das verkannte Modell, Céline Zimmer, d’Lëtzebuerger Land (27.09.2024)
Decommodification could be the remedy for the housing crisis, Céline Zimmer, Paperjam (13.05.2024)
Bauen in Genossenschaften: Warum klappt das nicht in Luxemburg?, Thomas Klein, Luxemburger Wort (27.04.2023)
De Wunnraum zu Lëtzebuerg ass knapps an och deier, Pierre Jans, RTL (24.04.2023)
Zeit für Alternativen, Céline Zimmer, Forum – Magazin für Politik, Gesellschaft und Kultur (08.09.2022)
PAST EVENTS (SELEKTION)
Service Logement, un regard intime sur la crise
Screening and Round Table at LUCA
11.02.2026
La coopérative de logement : une autre solution à la crise immobilière au Luxembourg
Round Table at the University of Luxembourg
09.12.2025
Logement zu Lëtzebuerg - What else?
Round Table at the Erwuessebildung
26.11.2025
Nei Wunnformen
Erwuessebildung
22.10.2025
Governing a Cooperative
Conference with Ivo Balmer at LUCA
05.06.2025
Designing a Cooperative
Conference with Mira Nekova at LUCA
23.04.2025
Initiating a Cooperative
Conference with Markus Sowa at LUCA
19.03.20525
Eng Äerd
Screening and Round Table at LUCA
29.09.2023
RE)acting/(EN)acting
Seminar at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design
24.09.2022