Sustainable Housing Communities in the Cohousing Formula

Małgorzata Zięba
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Małgorzata Zięba: Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie

World of Real Estate Journal (Swiat Nieruchomosci), 2015, issue 92, 13-20

Abstract: The paper briefly describes the idea of cohousing communities built and managed by their owners and residents. The Author introduces special features of cohousing, which distinguish it from other forms of housing, i.e. non-profit construction and management by owners-users, creation of the sense of a community and strong social ties. It has been emphasized that the concept of cohousing incorporates realization of sustainable and ecological houses as well as sustainable communities, and is part of contemporary economic and social trends of limiting consumption – degrowth. The paper includes an analysis of conditions facilitating more extensive realization of housing in this formula in Poland as well as barriers, especially legal and mental ones – lack of social capital required to create close and cooperating cohousing communities.

Keywords: sustainable housing; sustainable development; cohousing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O44 R11 R31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.14659/worej.2015.92.02

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