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  • A Tour is Worth a Thousand (or More) Words
    by Joani Blank, Swan's Market Cohousing

    Six years ago while living at Doyle Street Cohousing in Emeryville, CA, I casually mentioned to a visiting tour group that I planned to offer my unit for sale within eight or nine months because I would be moving to Swan's Market Cohousing in Oakland upon its completion. The next day, a woman who'd flown up from Los Angeles to attend the tour called me up and offered to buy my unit for about $20,000 more than I was thinking about listing it for. She's happily living there still.

  • Is religious cohousing possible?
    By E.F. Walker

    Lately, religious conferences, publications and broadcasters have taken an interest in cohousing. A number of newer projects and groups are overtly religious. At the 2006 Cohousing Conference speaker Kathryn McCamant, while describing the growth of cohousing, half-jokingly asked “what are we going to do when the reli-gious right discovers cohousing?” As religious groups of different stripes explore co-housing, it is important to consider how religion and religious norms might affect a cohousing community’s core principles.

  • Budgeting for Development: Finding the Balance between Hope and Caution
    by Chris ScottHanson, Cohousing Resources LLC

    Having worked for cohousing groups over the years, creating budgets and schedules and cash flow plans, I have often been asked, “Why does our project have to cost so much? Why is our budget so high?” Recently the question was asked of me again in Brooklyn, so I thought it might be good to address this issue in writing and share it with the greater cohousing community.

  • “Solar Panel” Says it All
    by Lorenzo Bassman, LaQuerencia/Fresno Cohousing

    News Flash: Worst Downturn in Housing Market in Decades! Mortgage Crisis Forces Glut of Foreclosures! Too Many Homes For Sale – Nothing Selling! Fresno Cohousing Prices Locked in at Above-Market Rates! Fresno Cohousing Membership Votes to Increase Prices by $10K!

    What’s wrong with this picture? Or, perhaps more significantly, what’s right with it?

  • A 2008 Map of Where Cohousing Communities Exist
    Donna Freiermuth

    The number of cohousing communities is increasing impressively. This map is based on the data from a recent census conducted by Betsy Morris, Ph.D., Coho/U.S.'s research director. As shown, built cohousing communities in the U.S. numbered 113 at mid-year. Other results of that census can be found in the Research Topic Room. (Registration as a member is required, although it is free.)

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