title: House Mates: A Guide to Cooperative Shared Housing
author:  Lori Stephens 
description: "Excellent advice and very well written." -- <i>Sylvia Hearing, Landlord, Portland, OR, Dec. 1997</i>
zlib_text: Shared Housing, Shared Lives provides important theoretical and ethnographic 
  accounts of shared living arrangements, ranging from the familiar spare-room 
  lodger, and multi-person house-share, to strong ideological commitment to values 
  of collective living. In a climate of austerity, many more people in the UK find 
  themselves sharing their homes and habits with housemates, and the authors of 
  this book invite you to step inside the material spaces and social, sensory proxim-
  ities of day-to-day sharing. At last, an incisive and nuanced analysis of shared 
  housing.
  Dr Helen Jarvis, Reader in Social Geography, Newcastle University, UK
  While standard nuclear family households loom large in imaginings of con-
  temporary domestic relations, not least among planners and policy makers, in 
  recent years, sharing a home with strangers has become a more common experi-
  ence. Across developed societies, supportive links between life-course transitions 
  and ascent up a housing ladder have become 