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Thriving During the Pandemic: The Story of One Urban Community

Caddis Collaborative has been privileged to design a number of cohousing communities across North America. As society begins to move out of COVID-19 restrictions, we reflect on how many of these communities have thrived during the pandemic. More than hunker-down survival mode, these communities looked actively to self-organize for neighborly care and connection. A case… Read More

Brian Squillace

I have spent nearly 20 years as an architect, designing hand-in-hand with communities across the United States, beginning as a builder and a community organizer before spending six years at McCamant & Durrett Architects. I have since taken lessons from cohousing design into other types of collective housing, educational environments and workplace design. I now… Read More

August 2007: Sesame Noodles

Another yummy recipe from the archives! Cohousing has changed a lot over the years, but cooking for one another remains a joy, along with our love for good, wholesome food.  CohoUS Staff has recently uncovered a stash of cohousing recipes. We hope you’ll enjoy them as much as we do.  To add to this treasure… Read More

June 2021: #149 ReOpen Community

Communities across the country are shedding pandemic restrictions and celebrating being together again. As a community of communities we gathered on zoom to share photos and stories. Sunnyside Cohousing harvested strawberries from their garden and celebrated with shortcake. Rocky Hill had the special treat of a wedding. Cornerstone children made a cardboard village. PDX had a dance party with a covid pinata. Gainesville Cohousing shared art and talent in their “funshops”. And more and more.

What a joy it is to see communities coming back together, restarting common meals programs, and opening common houses. We also heard some of the struggles as communities fail to agree on whether to continue business meetings on Zoom or begin to have them in person, how and whether to address non-vaccinated folks who may be in community, and when to open up to those outside the community for various uses.

As ever, cohousing is blissful, relational and challenging. Welcome back, it’s great to see you again!

Juniper Hill Commons: Information Session

Join a cohousing neighborhood in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley! We’re looking for more kids and adults of all ages to join us as neighbors!   We’re a multi-generational group building homes in Harrisonburg, Virginia, a small university city of ~54,000 people and nicknamed “The Friendly City”. It’s a great place to raise kids, with a dual… Read More

Blessing the Land At River Song

Even though we have roots in Oregon, Jim and I were in Vancouver, British Columbia waiting out the pandemic with the US/Canada border closed, so we were not able to come to the land blessing.   But there was such a strong desire to include everyone who was unable to be there, they had set up… Read More

April 2008: Smoked Cheese and Onion Quiche & Caesar Salad

Flashback Recipe: Cohousing has changed a lot over the years, but cooking for one another remains a joy, along with our love for good, wholesome food.  CohoUS Staff has recently uncovered a stash of cohousing recipes. We hope you’ll enjoy them as much as we do.  To add to this treasure chest, send your favorite… Read More

Gina Simm

Gina works in the realm of community conflict. She likes to think of it as “dilemmas that we hold together”. Systems are Gina’s specialty. She has created systems for all kinds of community distress. Children are another area of expertise for Gina. She has written a book for parents and teachers called HEART TO HEART…. Read More

Summer Explorer Series

We want to invite you to join us in a Summer Explorer Series where we get to know each other and you can find out if cohousing is the next right step for you. This 6-week Explorer series of information and Q&A sessions is designed to orient you to cohousing as a concept, show you… Read More

Flashback Recipe: Carin’s New Mexican Sweet Dream Cookies

Cohousing has changed a lot over the years, but cooking for one another remains a joy, along with our love for good, wholesome food.  CohoUS Staff has recently uncovered a stash of cohousing recipes. We hope you’ll enjoy them as much as we do.  To add to this treasure chest, send your favorite recipe and… Read More

What is a Common House For?

This question was posted recently to the cohousing listserv.  As usual there were many great responses. A couple of those seemed useful, so we have gathered them here.   Raines Cohen offered is take on concepts around the deeper “why” of a Common House: Because through sharing space and resources and time together, we can live… Read More

Building Trust – Part 4

Trust through Conflict Trust comes in many forms and layers. Some trust is about believing someone will do the thing they said they would do. Sometimes trust is about believing they will behave toward me in a certain way – perhaps with kindness or generosity. Sometimes we event find stability in trusting that a person… Read More

Dig In to Heartwood Commons

Join us for “Dig In to Heartwood Commons” to meet some of our members, see our plans and pricing, hear about our construction progress, and get answers to your questions. Our community is growing, and we only have a few homes left. Now is the perfect time to check us out and learn how you… Read More

Dig In to Heartwood Commons

Join us for “Dig In to Heartwood Commons” to meet some of our members, see our plans and pricing, hear about our construction progress, and get answers to your questions. Our community is growing, and we only have a few homes left. Now is the perfect time to check us out and learn how you… Read More

Building Trust, Part 3

Trust Through Crisis Everyone’s least favorite way to build trust in a group is a shared experience of crisis, which doesn’t stop it from being highly effective.  The classic case is surviving a natural disaster together. Total strangers grab on to each other in a storm, survive the night, and by morning are friends for… Read More

Building Trust, Part 1

How do we build trust?  It’s a common question, both from communities experiencing a lack of trust (which often appears as conflict) and from forming communities wishing to foster trust.  I often tell my client communities that trust (and mis-trust) is built in 1000 small moments and a couple of big ones. Or to say… Read More

May 29, 2021: #148 The Importance of Play

In cohousing we talk a lot about the hard work of building relationships and maintaining our communities. It turns out play may be even more important for creating the joyful, productive lives we hope for.

Play comes in many forms, from interactive games, to solitary clover gathering. The point is mostly to do something for which there is no point beyond your own interest and joy. The result is better health, better learning, more motivation, and, particularly important to community, relationships with more harmony and connection.

As we begin to leave behind the restrictions of Covid and the full range of possibilities for play open up, we hope you will prioritize playing in your community – spontaneous play, planned play, playful meetings, play in nature and play with things.

For more on why play matters, you might enjoy Stuart Brown’s TedX talk.

For more on play in cohousing as summer beings, see Re-Open Cohousing below.

Juniper Hill Commons: Information Session

Join a cohousing neighborhood in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley! We’re looking for more kids and adults of all ages to join us as neighbors!   We’re a multi-generational group building homes in Harrisonburg, Virginia, a small university city of ~54,000 people and nicknamed “The Friendly City”. It’s a great place to raise kids, with a dual… Read More

Common House as Life Boat

  In a recent post to the cohousing listserv, Cohousing-L, Dean Smith of Sunnyside Village posed the question: Has anyone considered equipping their Common House to serve the community through extended natural disasters? Sunnyside village is in the design phase and is considering how they might equip it for use during earthquakes or other natural… Read More

May 24, 2021: mid-month

ReOpen Event CohoUS invites you to participate in a nationwide Re-Opening Cohousing2021 celebration on June 26, 2021. We invite you to gather your community as it feels safe to do so, connect, take photos, and then join with communitiesaround the country for a zoom show andtell at the end of the day.