Student housing cooperative

Members live in alternative cooperative housing that they personally own and maintain.

They are, in general, nonprofit, communal, and self-governing,[1] with students pooling their monetary and personal resources to create a community style home.

As with most cooperatives, student housing coops follow the Rochdale Principles and promote collaboration and community work done by the members for mutual benefit.

For example, the Harriet E. Richards House [3] at Boston University (1928) was established to provide a cheap alternative to dorm life for women scholars.

[7] Many student housing cooperatives require work shifts that help lower the overall cost of living.

It is up to the individual coops as to whether the members elect a board or committee to oversee the entire cooperative.

L'ACLEF operates CoopColoc, housing students in Paris and Bordeaux alongside Campus & Toits in Toulouse.

[28] Artist, student and community co-operatives are common in the San Francisco Bay Area.