co-housingn.
/ˈkəʊhaʊzɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkoʊˌhaʊzɪŋ/ A residential development in which individual households share some common facilities or amenities, and residents are communally responsible for managing the community.
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model dwellings1851
model1887
tenantry1905
row housing1920
social housing1928
open housing1958
tobacco housing1960
twilight housing1971
co-housing1988
1988 K. McCamant & C. Durrett Cohousing i. i. 10/2 In Denmark..these communities are called bofœllesskaber in Danish (directly translated as ‘living communities’), for which we have coined the English term ‘cohousing’. First built in the early 1970s, cohousing developments have quadrupled in number in the last five years.
1992 Amicus Jrnl. Summer 31/1 Young couples are getting together with small groups of contemporaries to plan and build co-housing projects, in which more than one family can share housing or garden amenities.
1998 Earth Matters Winter 34/4 We visit co-housing communities; a permaculture village..; Local Exchange Trading Schemes..and a host of other projects.
2000 M. A. Burayidi Urban Planning in Multicultural Soc. iii. 48 Female single parents may benefit more from the Swedish model of cohousing... Residents in cohousing have separate bedrooms but share common kitchen and dining facilities.
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