Australia Two student housing co-operatives are presently operating in Australia: •
STUCCO Cooperative Ltd in
Newtown,
Sydney, founded in 1992 • Canberra Student Housing Co-op in Canberra, founded in 2010
Canada Student co-operatives are situated in close proximity to colleges and universities. The biggest student housing co-operative in the world is Waterloo Co‑operative Residence Inc. in
Waterloo,
Ontario with 1300 resident members. The East Coast is represented by: •
New Brunswick Residence Co‑operative from
Fredericton,
New Brunswick. Central Canada is represented by: • Educational Community Living Environment (ECOLE) in
Montreal,
Quebec • Coopérative d'habitation étudiant Triangle Rose in
Montreal,
Quebec • Campus Co‑operative Residence Inc in
Toronto,
Ontario • Guelph Campus Co‑operative in
Guelph,
Ontario •
Waterloo Co‑operative Residence Inc. in
Waterloo,
Ontario • Science ’44 in
Kingston,
Ontario The
West Coast is represented by: • College Housing Co‑operative Limited in
Winnipeg,
Manitoba • Common Ground Co‑operative in
Winnipeg,
Manitoba • Assiniboia Community Housing Co‑operative in
Edmonton,
Alberta. • Campus Residence Co‑operative Association in
New Westminster,
British Columbia Many of the co-ops are members of
The Cooperative Housing Federation of Canada and
NASCO.
France In France L’Association de Coopération pour le Logement des Etudiant·es de France (L'ACLEF), founded in 2015, exists to take on the management of empty properties to rent to students. L'ACLEF operates CoopColoc, housing students in Paris and
Bordeaux alongside Campus & Toits in
Toulouse.
Switzerland There is one operational student housing co-operative in Switzerland: • La Ciguë in Geneva, founded in 1986.
United Kingdom houses 106 members There are four operational student housing co-operatives in the UK: •
Edinburgh Student Housing Co-operative with 106 members, opened 2014 •
Birmingham Student Housing Co-operative with 9 members, opened 2014 •
Sheffield Student Housing Co-operative with 5 members, opened 2015 • SEASALT (South East Students Autonomously Living Together) in
Brighton with 7 members, opened 2021 There are also initiatives at various stages of development to establish housing co-operatives in Glasgow, Manchester and Bristol. All operating coops and initiatives are members of
Students for Cooperation, a UK wide federation of student co-operatives which includes a number of other groups across the UK working to establish student housing co-operatives. Students for Cooperation commissioned a report on establishing a National Body of Student Housing Cooperatives (NBSHC) to help support and grow the UK student housing cooperative movement. In 2018 this new body, Student Co-op Homes, was launched as a
secondary co-operative for raising finances to buy property to lease to student housing co-operatives. The organisation has similarities to
North American Students of Cooperation. An unsuccessful plan to launch a student housing co-operative took place in 2004, when
MMUnion partnered with the
National Union of Students and Confederation of Co-operative Housing to offer cheaper cooperatively owned alternatives to city housing for
Manchester Metropolitan University students. The NUS plan fell through as NUS management changed.
United States Artist, student and community co-operatives are common in the San Francisco Bay Area. Many of these housing co-operatives are members of organizations such as
NASCO. Currently, the second biggest student housing co-op in the world is
Berkeley Student Cooperative, formerly known as the University Students Cooperative Association, in Berkeley, CA with 1250 students living in 17 houses and 3 apartment complexes. Other large-scale co-op systems include
MSU Student Housing Cooperative of Michigan State University, the Inter-Cooperative Council at the University of Michigan, and UCLA
University Cooperative Housing Association with 400+ students. Other examples of such cooperatives include: •
Berkeley Student Cooperative in
Berkeley, California • Bloomington Cooperative Living in
Bloomington, Indiana •
Brown Association for Cooperative Housing in
Providence, Rhode Island • College Houses (e.g.
21st Street Co-op) and the
Inter-Cooperative Council at the
University of Texas at Austin • Cornell Cooperative Housing at
Cornell University • Dudley Co-op at
Harvard University • Genesee Valley Cooperative in Geneseo, New York • Harriet E. Richards House at Boston University, in Boston, Massachusetts. • Kalamazoo Collective Housing in
Kalamazoo, Michigan • The University of Kansas Student Housing Association in Lawrence, Kansas • Cooperative Housing at the University of Maryland in
College Park, Maryland •
Student Housing Cooperative at Michigan State University • University of Minnesota Students Co-op and Riverton Community Housing in
Minneapolis, Minnesota • Minnesota Students' Cooperative in
Saint Paul, MN • Students' Co-Op at the
University of Minnesota • The
Oberlin Student Cooperative Association at
Oberlin College • Penn Haven Housing Cooperative at
University of Pennsylvania • Cooperative Housing at Purdue at
Purdue University • Qumbya in
Chicago, Illinois •
Santa Barbara Student Housing Cooperative in
Santa Barbara, California • Santa Cruz Student Housing Co-ops in
Santa Cruz, California • Cooperative Houses at
Stanford University •
Stewart Little (cooperative housing) in
Ithaca, NY • The Tri Co-ops and
Baggin's End/Domes in
Davis, California •
Two Dickinson Street Co-op in
Princeton, New Jersey. •
University Cooperative Housing Association at
UCLA •
Inter-Cooperative Council at the University of Michigan •
Community of Urbana Champaign Cooperative Housing in
Urbana, Illinois • Students' Cooperative Association in
Eugene, Oregon • The
Cooperative Living Organization in
Gainesville, Florida • Helyar House at
Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ ==References==