cooperative living
Group home arrangement
Cooperative living is a housing arrangement where residents share resources, responsibilities, and often decision-making.
Members typically divide chores, share common spaces, and may pool finances for rent and food.
The setup ranges from informal roommate agreements to intentional communities with formal governance structures: She moved into a co-op after college to save money and build community.
- collective ownershipJoint holding by many
- kibbutzIsraeli communal farm
- collaborationJoint intellectual work
- communesShared-living communities
- egalitarianismPhilosophy of universal equality
consensus-building · group decision · house meeting · mutual aid · eco-villages · land trust · community garden · cohousing · conflict resolution · collectivism · mutualism · barter systems · shared expenses · participatory democracy · interdependence · trust-building · housing cooperatives · pooled resources
- Communescommunes, kibbutz, hippie commune, utopian communities, intentional community
- shared housingroommate, roommates, housemate, flatmate, houseshare
- planned communitiesplanned towns, subdivision, gated community, new towns, master-planned community
- settlement housessettlement houses, social workers, immigrant aid, immigrant services, night schools
- Utopianismutopian communities, ideal societies, ideal society, communal societies, utopianism
cooperative livingliving alone
Residing without cohabitants
independent living · hermitage · bachelor pad · social isolation
cooperative livingrugged individualism
Philosophy of personal independence