Shawn Watson

About Shawn

Shawn is a recent graduate of the Master of Urban and Regional Planning Planning program at UCLA. She holds an undergraduate degree in history from the University of New Mexico. Shawn's interests focus on the nexus between twentieth century urban, social, and political history, especially as they relate to housing.
Avion Village

Since their inception, the mutual programs of the 1940s were created as secondary to individual private homeownership, which has persisted as the dominant model in the decades since. While mutual or cooperative housing has taken various forms, the term typically denotes a buyer purchasing a share in a not-for-profit mutual association where the association (made up of the residents) owns and controls the houses and land.

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