Tag: Policies


Your Cohousing Community and Sex Offenders

Submitted by Jane Ward, PhD, Certified Sex Offender Treatment Provider, oregoncenterforchange.com & Heidi Venture, Member of White Salmon Cohousing on
Many communities wonder about protecting community members, especially children from sex offenders. While some members feel strongly that background checks should be used, others object to relying on the criminal justice system (which many view as racist and unfair) as a source of information.  Read on for a detailed explanation of what a background check... Read More

WebChat #10 with Laura Fitch

Submitted by Coho US Staff on
For our 10th WebChat, Architect Laura Fitch walked us through the process her home community, Pioneer Valley Cohousing, uses for Design Review. In other words, how the community considers requests from members to make changes to the exterior of their homes. Pioneer Valley’s detailed policy has developed over many years of trial and error. In... Read More

Cohousing Policies

Submitted by Elizabeth Magill, Mosaic Commons in Berlin, MA on
What shall we discuss as we are forming our communities? Every forming community (I hope!) asks this question and communities that have already moved in give lots of different answers. Many of those answers are in the form of “I wish we’d resolved this” and “we decided x which was irrelevant and should have decided... Read More