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  • Making cohousing affordable: Strategies and successes, part 1 of 3
    by Betsy Morris, Coho/US Research Director
    July, 2007

    A glance at a detailed map of U.S. cohousing communities would show that most of us are living in areas of relatively high property values: on the coasts, in college towns or on the outskirts of high-tech growth centers. That’s one reason why making cohousing affordable to the widest possible number of people has been of intense interest to prospective community members throughout the history of the cohousing movement.

  • Grassroots financing
    by Rick Mockler, CoHousing Partners
    March, 2007

    Cohousing has matured in many respects since it immigrated to the U.S., but none so much as the development structures or the financial savvy of cohousers themselves. Since future residents expect to be involved in the design of the future neighborhood, the instruments for conventionally financed development don’t always work in the same way. Consequently, in the process of learning about real estate development and financing, cohousers are reinventing them.

  • Working with a local project manager
    by John R. McCarthy, project manager, Oak Creek Commons
    September, 2004

    I actually had no experience with cohousing when members of Oak Creek Commons first approached me about the possibility of becoming the project manager for their community. The group already had worked for about a year with a professional whose offices were outside of the area, but had discovered they needed a local, hands-on project manager who could navigate them through the many steps of constructing their new community.

  • Have conscience, will build
    by Jim Leach, president, Wonderland Hill Development Co.
    February, 2004

    Like a flame draws a moth, cohousing attracts a certain type of house builder. Somewhere in the back of our minds we think we can save the world, our country or at least our hometown from environmental and social degradation through the quality of the housing - and communities - we create. This challenge keeps many of us going in an industry full of political adversity and economic risk.

  • 2003 Review

    A celebration of community and a better way of life

    by Diane Leafe Christan

    “You are literally creating a new culture,” sociologist and market researcher Paul H. Ray, Ph.D., declared in his keynote speech to the attentive crowd gathered in Boulder, CO, for the Cohousing Association of the United States’ biennial National Cohousing Conference.

  • Wonderland Hill Development Company

    Wonderland Hill Development Company builds villages and small neighborhoods based on the cohousing concepts that embody community, organic design and sustainable building practices and principles. With more than 30 years of development experience, Wonderland Hill Development Company is a pioneer in the high-quality Green Building arena, winning awards for almost all of their communities based on the sustainable features and Green Built strategies they design into all of them. Wonderland Hill is the largest developer of cohousing in the United States with 16 completed communities and 4 more in various stages of development. Wonderland's significant contribution to cohousing is well known, as the company has established a new model for streamlined development of cohousing in conjunction with the other leading cohousing professionals in the United States.

    303-449-3232
    Wonderland Hill Development Company website

  • 2008 Pre-conference Tours & Workshops

    Tours

    Thursday, June 12: Full Day Bus Tour, Western Massachusetts
    Visit Pioneer Valley Cohousing (Amherst, MA), Pathways Cohousing (Florence, MA), Rocky Hill Cohousing (Florence, MA) and Treehouse (Easthampton, MA) communities in the beautiful Berkshire mountains!

    Friday, June 13 Morning: Half Day Bus Tour, Boston Area I
    Visit Jamaica Plain Cohousing (Boston, MA), Cambridge Cohousing (Cambridge, MA) and Cornerstone Village Cohousing (Cambridge, MA) communities.
    Note: The second half-day tour duplicates two of the three communities visited in the morning tour.

    Friday, June 13 Afternoon: Half Day Bus Tour, Boston Area II
    Visit Cambridge Cohousing (Cambridge, MA), Cornerstone Village Cohousing (Cambridge, MA) and New View Cohousing (Acton, MA) communities.

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