TY - JOUR AU - Caldenby, Claes PY - 2021/07/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Kollektivhus: the Swedish model JF - Docomomo Journal JA - docomomo VL - IS - 65 SE - Essays DO - 10.52200/65.A.78U9KN9V UR - https://docomomojournal.com/index.php/journal/article/view/52 SP - 92-97 AB - <p>Today there is a new wave of co-housing internationally. Co-housing is here understood as collaborative housing, based on collaboration between residents on cooking and house maintenance, a new phenomenon since the 1980s. Sweden has a tradition since early modernism of kollektivhus, collective houses, in multi-family dwellings with employed staff managing household work. In Sweden today there are only some 40 true kollektivhus or co-housing projects, while ordinary Swedish postwar multi-family dwellings have common facilities that potentially would make them co-housing. Co-housing is often seen as a sustainable house form, but a problem is that they mainly reach middle-class residents.</p> ER -