Housing cooperatives currently provide moderate to low-income families with about 376,000 units of affordable housing.1 This is equal to seventeen percent of the total number of rent reduction housing units owned by the nation’s public housing authorities (HUD and Bureau of the Census,
History of Cooperatives in the United States an overview 
Cooperative Unification Highlights From 1989 To Early 1999 
About United States of America Cooperatives 
Significant Dates in Cooperative History 
Rich History of Associations 
History of NonProfits 
History of Cooperatives UW 
Cooperative societies were created long before the advent of the fair-trade movement 
Brief History of Cooperative Housing 
A History of Housing Cooperatives