%0 Journal Article
%T Cohousing – the idea of collective housing
%A Jagiełło-Kowalczyk, Magdalena
%A Ptaszynski, Michal
%J Housing Environment
%V 2017
%R 10.4467/25438700SM.17.062.7919
%N 21/2017
%P 14-24
%K collective housing, habitat, cohousing, ecology
%@ 1731-2442
%D 2018
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/srodowisko-mieszkaniowe/article/cohousing-the-idea-of-collective-housing
%X 
	A safe and comfortable place to live is a basic need of every human. However, modern tendencies in housing construction appear not to answer this deeply rooted human need: the need to live in a sustainable environment and to create neighbourly ties. One of the forms of neighboirhood units is Cohousing. The name has been coined as a combination of the words „community” and „housing”, and describes a situation in which a group of people initiates the construction of a settlement in which social ties and integration go hand in hand with respecting the autonomy and privacy of an individual.