Student Housing Cooperative at Michigan State University
Spartan Housing Cooperative (SHC) is a nonprofit member owned and operated housing cooperative. The SHC was formed as in 1969, as a federation of existing student housing cooperatives in East Lansing. Since the first of the SHC's member houses formed 69 years ago, SHC has accumulated more than 4,000 members. Houses The Spartan Housing Cooperative currently maintains 17 houses in East Lansing, Lansing, and Okemos. Current Houses New Community House of Apollo (previously Avalon) Beal The David Bowie Memorial Cooperative Hedrick Howland Toad Lane Miles Davis Orion Phoenix Raft Hill Vesta Bower Zolton Ferency # In 1971, the MSU SHC became a collective land trust with donations of property from Bower, Elsworth, and Hedrick cooperatives. Houses No Longer A Part of the SHC Atlantis Eleutheria (located at 125 Evergreen Street, it was destroyed by fire in June 1972) Hillsdale House Cooperative Montie A Chronological History of the SHC Houses A Brief History of Campus Cooperatives Some of the earliest student co-ops in the United States were established around the turn of the century. In Austin, Texas, and in Gainesville, Florida, students began by providing themselves with meal plans. These programs eventually led to early housing co-ops. These co-ops continued, observing