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Michigan Coöperative House was founded in 1932 as Michigan Socialist House. It was located at 335 E. Ann Street in
Michigan Cooperative's functions are intertwined with its neighboring co-op house, Minnie's Cooperative. The two houses are technically two distinct co-ops, but they function as one unit, sharing meals and many aspects of their house cultures.
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Michigan Coöperative House was founded in 1932 as Michigan Socialist House. It was located at 335 E. Ann Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County, Michigan, Washtenaw County. The 2020 United States census, 2020 census recorded its population to be 123,851. It is the principal city of the Ann Arbor ...
, near the University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
, former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821)
, budget = $10.3 billion (2021)
, endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
campus, and now is located at 315 N. State Street. It is one of the co-op houses making up the Inter-Cooperative Council. In 2016 Michigan Cooperative House and the neighboring Minnies Cooperative House voted to combine the two coops and become one functioning, democratically run cooperative.
History
Michigan Socialist House was founded in 1932 by a group of students in the University of Michigan Socialist Club as an experiment in putting socialist values into practice and a way to defray the costs of living for students during theGreat Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was an economic shock that impacted most countries across the world. It was a period of economic depression that became evident after a major fall in stock prices in the United States. The economic contagio ...
. Throughout the 1930s, the members of Michigan House managed to provide themselves with full room and board
Room and board is a phrase describing a situation in which, in exchange for money, Manual labour, labor or other considerations, a person is provided with a place to live as well as meals on a comprehensive basis. It commonly occurs as a fee at h ...
for only two dollars a week, making headlines. In 1939, the members of the house voted to change the name to Michigan Cooperative House, though many people still refer to it by its original name.
Today, Michigan Cooperative House continues to provide housing, food and community living for students and non-students in Ann Arbor.
Minnie's Cooperative House
Michigan Cooperative's functions are intertwined with its neighboring co-op house, Minnie's Cooperative. The two houses are technically two distinct co-ops, but they function as one unit, sharing meals and many aspects of their house cultures.
See also
*North American Students of Cooperation
The North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO) is a federation of housing cooperatives in Canada and the United States, started in 1968. Traditionally, NASCO has been associated with student housing cooperatives, though non-student cooperatives ...
References
* Mericle, Amy, Suzanne Wilson, and James Jones. ''In Our Own Hands: A History of Student Housing Cooperatives at the University of Michigan''. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-Cooperative Council, 1994.External links
Michigan Cooperative House
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