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A student housing cooperative, also known as co-operative housing, is a housing cooperative for student members. Members live in alternative cooperative housing that they personally own and maintain. These houses are specifically designed to lower housing costs while providing an educational and community environment for students to live and grow in. They are, in general, nonprofit, communal, and self-governing,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.msu.coop/about-our-cooperative )〕 with students pooling their monetary and personal resources to create a community style home. Many student housing cooperatives share operation and governing of the house. As with most cooperatives, student housing coops follow the Rochdale Principles and promote collaboration and community work done by the members for mutual benefit. Most student housing coops in North America are members of NASCO. ==History== Several of the earliest US student cooperatives (e.g. at Northwestern University and Wellesley College) had begun by at least 1915, for the purpose of housing female students.〔(''The Dean of Women'' ) By Lois Kimball Mathews Rosenberry〕 Most student housing cooperatives are formed to provide an alternative dorm for students who are unable to afford college due to housing costs. For example, the (Harriet E. Richards House ) at Boston University (1928) was established to provide a cheap alternative to dorm life for women scholars.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.her-house.org/about/mission )〕 The Berkeley Student Cooperative, amongst others, started during the Great Depression to help provide affordable food and housing for Berkeley students. Other early examples that started in the Depression years: the Cooperative Living Organization at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida founded in 1931 and the Michigan Socialist House at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan founded in 1932. Others were formed to provide a more inclusive and supportive environment for students. Many student housing cooperatives are focused around socialist principles or political activism (Michigan Socialist House), veganism or vegetarianism, racial or ethnic identity (Biko), or environmental concerns. Throughout the twentieth century, student housing cooperatives expanded, but some floundered. Many formed coalitions in the face of rising debt or bankruptcy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://riverton.org/about/ )〕 The North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO) was formed in 1968 as a way to link existing cooperatives together while educating and improving cooperatives across North America.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nasco.coop/development )〕 Today, NASCO primarily serves as an association that promotes development and communication amongst coops and promotes communal living. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Student housing cooperative」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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