Hello All, A friendly reminder the early-bird deadline for the Regional Cohousing Conference coming up April 20-22 in Boulder, CO is just around the corner! The early bird rate is $60 off the regular price, so round up your community members this week and sign yourselves up here: https://www.cohousing.org/boulder2018 The Regional Conference will feature full/half... Read More

My favorite thing about attending conferences is the people that I meet. Don’t get me wrong, the information gleaned while attending intensives and sessions is invaluable, but what I really love is the informal conversations with other conference attendees when waiting for the elevator or while sitting in the hotel lobby lounge. This is when... Read More

The 2018 Boulder CO Regional Cohousing Conference holds the keys to creating a highly functioning cohousing community. There is something for everyone – those exploring the idea, newly forming groups or existing communities. For Newly Forming Communities: You will learn how to get started, meet the people who can help make it happen, and discover... Read More

Social Activism consists of efforts to promote, social, political, economic, or environmental reform with the desire to make improvements in society. Be a social activist, support the cohousing movement. Often people make donations to organizations they support on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, but you can financially support non-profits such as CoHoUS ANY DAY of the... Read More

Today is Jeff Zucker’s last day on the Coho/US Board, and a good time to thank him for his service! Jeff joined the board in late 2013, when the organization was contracting, with multiple challenges. He was one of just six board members when I became Executive Director in April 2014, and the only one... Read More

It’s that time again… This website has grown, and it’s time to think about the next iteration of the site. To do that, we ask ourselves, and you: Who is coming to the website? What do they want to find? How could we organize things so that it all makes sense, and all the different... R

Over the last several years I have served on the Cohousing Association of the US Board of Directors and it’s been an absolute delight! My term will be ending the end of this year. The board meets monthly by phone and with a well-crafted meeting by our executive director, Karin Hoskin, we move expediently through... Read More

Supporting Coho/US through annual contributions is a terrific way to ensure our association continues as a connector and clearinghouse to help our communities thrive. I recently included this language in my Durham Cohousing’s budget package as justification for continued annual support to Coho/US. Some of you may find this brief “case for support” helpful: $300.00... Read More

Loneliness doesn’t always stem from being alone. For architect Grace Kim, loneliness is a function of how socially connected we feel to the people around us — and it’s often the result of the homes we live in. She shares an age-old antidote to isolation: cohousing, a way of living where people choose to share... Read More