Re: The popularization of the term Co-housing
From: Cohousing (cohousingmindspring.com)
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 13:37:43 -0700 (PDT)
The term Cohousing is a contraction of collaborative and housing. Not 
cooperative and housing. 

Kayelily
Raleigh-cohousing.com <http://raleigh-cohousing.com/> 




> On Oct 19, 2016, at 1:41 PM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> 
> wrote:
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>> On Oct 19, 2016, at 1:35 PM, Lynne Markell <lmarkell [at] rogers.com> wrote:
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>> I think the term "shared housing" is a better term 
> 
> The problem with this is that it is used to mean people sharing a house. The 
> origin of cohousing as I remember, is cooperative housing, meaning 
> cooperatively managed housing.,
> 
> Cooperative has other problems but it at least explains the co- in housing.
> 
> Sharon
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> Sharon Villines, Washington DC
> "A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly 
> strangled." Sir Barnett Cocks
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