Santa Cruz Student Housing Co-ops

The Santa Cruz Student Housing Co-operative (SCSHC) is a non-profit that helps to manage two housing cooperatives in Santa Cruz, California. The Cesar Chavez House is on Main Street, and the Zami House is on Laurel Street.



The properties are leased from NASCO Properties, which is a 501(c)(2) title-holding corporation for North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO).

Organization
Each of the houses maintains a degree of autonomy from SCSHC, to which they pay rent. Weekly meetings are held in each house, where the decisions which guide the members of the co-op in their actions are made. Each house has representatives on the SCSHC board. A yearly meeting of the membership of both houses uses voting to elect executive members of the board, including:
*President
*Vice-president
*Secretary
*Treasurer
*Education


Workshifts (known euphemistically as 'loveshifts' at Chavez) are a major part of co-op living.
 
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