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student housing cooperatives  

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  • A student housing cooperative is an organization of students who own and operate their own residence in a democratic fashion, following internationally recognized cooperative principles. Primarily a phenomenon on college campuses in the United States and Canada, student housing cooperatives are an outgrowth of the cooperative movement of mid-nineteenth-century Great Britain and the principles forged by the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers. [Source: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World; Student Housing Cooperatives]

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