Casafair Schweiz / HabitatDurable Suisse

What Casafair Schweiz / HabitatDurable Suisse does

Casafair Schweiz / HabitatDurable Suisse is a Swiss non-profit organization founded in 1988 and headquartered in Bern, Switzerland. The organization's bilingual name — "Casafair" in German and "HabitatDurable" in French — indicates a national scope spanning Switzerland's principal language regions, with a mission tied to fair and sustainable housing ("fair home" / "durable habitat"). It is a small advocacy-oriented body, operating with approximately 10 employees as of the most recent firmographic data.

The organization functions as a sectoral association or advocacy platform rather than a commercial enterprise. As a non-profit, its revenue mechanics are presumed to derive from membership dues, donations, and project-based grants typical of Swiss housing and sustainability associations, although no specific revenue, funding, membership, or programmatic data was disclosed in the source material. The corporate website (casafair.ch) was inaccessible beyond a verification/loading page in the data captured, so no products, services, campaigns, technical platform, partnerships, or governance disclosures could be verified. No management team, partnerships, awards, certifications, or subsidiary structure was identified.

Given the data thinness, the core characterization rests on the firm's name and structure: a long-established, small, bilingual Swiss non-profit focused on housing that combines a fairness/social dimension ("Casafair") with an environmental sustainability dimension ("HabitatDurable"). The 35+ year operating history since 1988 indicates institutional persistence in the Swiss civic-association landscape. Any deeper product, technology, or financial characterization cannot be supported by the available evidence and would constitute fabrication.

Name

Casafair Schweiz / HabitatDurable Suisse

Website

https://casafair.ch

Company type

Private

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Casafair Schweiz / HabitatDurable Suisse is a small Swiss non-profit founded in 1988 in Bern, operating bilingually across German- and French-speaking Switzerland to advocate for fair and sustainable housing. It employs approximately 10 people.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Housing Advocacy Services

SIC

Hotels, Rooming Houses, Camps & Other Lodging Places (7000)

akta.pro primary industry

Housing Policy, Standards & Fair Housing Enforcement (BPAIANAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Owner-Occupied Private Rooms (Homestays) (THAMABAA)

Keywords

• Sustainable housing
• Housing advocacy
• Tenant protection
• Housing policy
• Non-profit housing

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Casafair Schweiz / HabitatDurable Suisse is a Swiss non-profit organization founded in 1988 and headquartered in Bern. Based on its bilingual German/French name ('Fair Home Switzerland' / 'Sustainable Habitat Switzerland'), the organization is focused on housing sustainability and related advocacy across Switzerland's main language regions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Homestay.com: Homestay.com is a paid homestay/student-accommodation platform that overlaps with Casafair's homestay-management activity and competes for similar hosts and guests in Switzerland and Europe.
• HomeExchange: HomeExchange is the largest global home-exchange platform, directly competing for members who want reciprocal non-cash stays in other members' homes—exactly the service Casafair/HabitatDurable Suisse organizes at a Swiss nonprofit scale.
• Servas International: Servas is a nonprofit peace-and-cultural-exchange network providing homestays between members—directly comparable to Casafair's nonprofit fair-housing/homestay mission and the kind of federated peer association Casafair could partner with.
• Love Home Swap: Love Home Swap operates a points-based global home-exchange membership that overlaps with Casafair's reciprocal-stay model and competes for the same Swiss/European family-travel demographic.
• HomeLink International: HomeLink is a long-standing European home-exchange club with a chapter structure that mirrors Casafair's nonprofit Swiss-association model and serves the same fair, member-to-member home-swap use case.
• Intervac: Intervac is one of the oldest international home-exchange networks and competes head-to-head with Casafair for the same European, values-oriented home-swap member segment.

Emerging players

• Knok: Knok is a family-focused home-exchange platform that targets the same Swiss/European family and homestay-adjacent travel segment Casafair caters to, but with a modern app-first product.
• GuestToGuest (HomeExchange): Originally an independent points-based home-exchange platform (later merged into HomeExchange), GuestToGuest represents the type of digital-first entrant that pressures legacy nonprofit exchanges like Casafair on platform UX.

Broad incumbents

• Airbnb: Airbnb is the dominant short-term-lodging platform; while it operates a paid-monetization model rather than reciprocal exchange, it competes for the same pool of Swiss travelers and homestay seekers that Casafair serves.
• Couchsurfing: Couchsurfing is a global free-stay community that overlaps with the cultural-exchange and values-aligned member-to-member hosting that Casafair's nonprofit model has historically championed.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/casafair

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Investors

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