This article is the first in a series under the heading "working with others to raise housing levels. The editors' intention was to highlight different housing organizations in the hope of improving cooperation and raising the conscious level of housing. Nicolaï-Chaillet wrote about the work of women's advisory committees (VAC) in issues 1,2,5 and 9. In this first article, she discusses VACs in general terms. She notes the existence of quite a bit of resistance among municipalities to take VACs seriously. This depends in part on their composition, which sometimes consists of only housewives, sometimes of specialists and housewives or of only specialists. In Nicolaï-Chaillet's view, housewives are equally specialists, the important thing being that they and those in the construction industry learn to understand each other's language. From 1954 there have been nationwide contacts between the VACs, which grew into an annually changing national contact address in 1957. Each year a Country Day is held with a specific theme. The national contact address also serves to disseminate questions, proposals and surveys developed at the initiative of one of the VACs. The topics concern mainly practical domestic problems.