Why Cohousing?

Cohousing communities balance the traditional advantages of home ownership with the benefits of shared common facilities and ongoing connections with neighbors.
Smaller, attached and/or clustered homes take up less land, reducing the negative environmental impact of development and preserving more land for natural vegetation, wildlife, and recreation.
Smaller homes with a shared common house have a smaller "carbon-footprint" by consuming fewer resources to build, maintain, and heat.
Cohousing neighborhoods are among the most promising solutions to many of today's most challenging social and environmental concerns.

What is Cohousing?

Cohousing is a type of collaborative housing that attempts to overcome the alienation of modern subdivisions where few people really get to know their neighbors. It is characterized by private residences with all the features of conventional homes (kitchen, living-dining room, bedrooms), but with access to extensive common facilities. This type of housing began in Denmark in the late 1960s, and spread to North America in the late 1980s. There are now more than a hundred cohousing communities completed or in development across the United States and Canada.

Cohousers are united by a mutual desire to live an environmentally-sound lifestyle and enjoy a cooperative, intergenerational neighborhood. They value energy-efficient and resource-conserving design, good architecture, and natural beauty. Cohousers do not have a common political or religious philosophy, and do not share finances.

For more about cohousing go to Cohousing Association of the U. S.

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