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cooperative housing  

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  • Housing cooperatives are democratically governed nonprofit corporations whose resident shareholders jointly own multiple-unit properties. The U.S. Census Bureau defines a cooperative as a type of ownership whereby a group of housing units is owned by a corporation of member-owners. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Housing; Cooperative Housing]

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