Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: The popularization of the term Co-housing

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

> On Oct 19, 2016, at 1:35 PM, Lynne Markell <lmarkell [at] rogers.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
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