Add or Edit a Community or Group

The Cohousing Directory, on the Cohousing Website, is a sub-set of the Intentional Community Directory maintained through the ICDC as a self-serve online database.

If you want to edit your existing listing, please review the editing instructions.

If you want to add a new community to the Cohousing Directory, please follow these required steps:

1. Check to see if your community already exists in the broader online Intentional Community database. If not, then review the detailed instructions for adding your community to that database and proceed to create your new listing.
2. After your community listing appears in the Intentional Community database, you can request that the Cohousing Association adds it to the Cohousing Directory.
   • Before you make this request, please be sure that your community uses the cohousing model (see below). If your directory listing does not make this clear, you may need to edit your listing before it will be included.
   • When you are ready, send an email to cohousing [at] umich [dot] edu asking us to review and approve your listing. Please include the URL for your existing directory listing. It can also be helpful to provide contact information if not provided in the Community Directory listing.
   • Processing your request may take up to several days, as one or more of our part-time editors review the online information you have published about your community or forming group. If you do not receive a reply, please contact us again.

Criteria used to decide whether to list a community

Cohousing Directory editors use the description of the Cohousing model and the Six Defining Characteristics of Cohousing to determine whether your community fits the our criteria. Forming group listings require three or more active member households.

Why at least three active member households?

Our decision not to list forming groups in the earliest stage is based on our collective experience. Some of us have visited with individuals that have made no progress on their cohousing vision for a decade or longer. When people visit with them, they sometimes quickly understand why nobody has joined in their efforts. Groups that have been unable to pull together a few committed families are much more likely to have issues that most people would prefer to avoid.

It should, however, be noted that most groups with fewer than three active member households are in a very early stage and will soon have more members through their local outreach efforts and/or their listing in the broader Intentional Communites Directory. We welcome their inclusion in the Cohousing Directory when they have three or more active member families.

Coho/US reserves the right to restrict or qualify the community listingson this site
and to remove any community at any time for any reason.