The Fall of the American Condominium — it’s not just the millennials. We Need a Better Co-Housing Model. My Story and More.

Ellen Beth Gill
9 min readOct 7, 2019

Condominiums have been around a lot longer than you’d think, at least since the 1880s in the USA and the 1920s in Europe, and there is evidence that the Romans developed the concept in ancient times.

In the USA, condominium ownership took off in the 1960s and 1970s as working, middle class, unmarried people and young married couples sought a piece of the home-ownership pie without the costs and labor required to purchase and…

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