Cooperative Housing

A housing cooperative is a legal mechanism for ownership of housing where residents either own individual shares (share capital co-op) or have membership and occupancy rights in a not-for-profit continuing co-operative (non-share capital / group equity co-op). Housing cooperatives are closely related to cohousing.

• On Campus Co-ops
  • Agrarian Effort Co-op
  • Davis Student Co-op
  • Pierce Co-op
  • The Domes
• Eleanor Roosevelt Circle (Senior Housing)
• Cooperatives of Davis and Yolo County web site
• Glacier Circle Senior Community
• Kibbutz Haverim
• Muir Commons
• N Street Cohousing - technically cohousing, not a co-op, but similar to co-ops in many ways
• Pacifico Student Cooperative Housing
• Solar Community Housing Association (SCHA)
  • Cornucopia Corner Co-op
  • J Street Co-op
  • Sunwise Co-op
• Dos Pinos
• Cesar Chavez Plaza

Because Fraternities and Sororities don't practice "voluntary & open membership," they aren't usually regarded as cooperatives (for example). It is true that while they restrict membership, they are not discriminatory under California and Federal law.