Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Warminster Heights, Pennsylvania, Housing cooperative, Cooperative Village, Cohousing, 834 Fifth Avenue, C-Squat, Clays Lane Estate, 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments, Intentional community, Greenbelt Homes, Inc., Nottingham Cooperative, 1300 Lafayette East Cooperative, Condop, Glenkerry House, Three Arrows Cooperative Society, Hafenstrasse, Trumbullplex, Powhatan Apartments, Karachi Co-operative Housing Societies Union, Ozero, Penn South, Forest Hills Co-op Houses, The Aquitania, United Housing Foundation, Amalgamated Housing Cooperative, GdW Bundesverband deutscher Wohnungs- und Immobilienunternehmen, Borettslag, Princeton Cooperative, Cirrus, Housing society, Eugene V. Debs Cooperative House, Stone Soup Cooperative, Aaron Webster Housing Cooperative, Roxbury, Queens, HSB. Excerpt: A housing cooperative is a legal entity-usually a corporation-that owns real estate, consisting of one or more residential buildings. (This is one type of housing tenure.) Each shareholder in the legal entity is granted the right to occupy one housing unit, sometimes subject to an occupancy agreement, which is similar to a lease. The occupancy agreement specifies the co-op's rules. Cooperative is also used to describe a non-share capital co-op model in which fee-paying members obtain the right to occupy a bedroom and share the communal resources of a house that is owned by a cooperative organization. Such is the case with student cooperatives in some college neighborhoods in the United States. As a legal entity, a co-op can contract with other companies or hire individuals to provide it with services, such as a maintenance contractor or a building manager. It can also hire employees, such as a manager or a caretaker, to deal with specific things that volunteers may prefer not to do or may not be good at doing, such as electrical mainte..