Supporting more and better cohousing
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You may have heard cohousing described as “another [expletive] growth opportunity”. It’s true. Cohousing is designed to encourage more and deeper relationships with others and relationships provide some of the richest growth opportunities I know. It’s a good thing. And there is a reason we use the expletive. Growth is good, but rarely easy, and we aren’t always up for it.
Quimper Village, located in the beautiful Victorian town of Port Townsend, across Puget Sound from Seattle, WA, is a supportive, self-governing cohousing community. Planned, owned and managed by its residents, aged 55 and up, Quimper has 28 single-level, townhouse-style condominiums.
Following on the heels of the November cohousing summit in Sacramento, Calif., and in alignment with our new strategic plan, CohoUS has organized another summit this May in Seattle, Wash.
When PDX Commons, the senior cohousing community in Portland OR, opened almost nine years ago, the average age of our residents was about 65.
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Before coming to Albuquerque, I was a paid community organizer with the IAF (Industrial Areas Foundation)— which has a misleadingly boring name for an organization that is miraculously stitching back together the tatters of our democratic culture in cities across the U.S.
The following article was written by Larry Beresford, a member of the Phoenix Commons (senior cohousing in Oakland, Calif.) Wellness Team. It was previously published on the Next Avenue website in March 2025. Next Avenue is a nonprofit, digital
If you had asked us ten years ago whether we’d someday join a forming cohousing community — one that wouldn’t be move-in ready until 2027 — we probably would have laughed. Life already felt full: careers, kids, logistics, exhaustion. Adding anything else seemed unrealistic. And yet, here we are, members of Sunnyside Village Cohousing, feeling more grounded, hopeful, and connected than we have in a…
Following up on CohoUS’s announcement of its new strategic plan earlier this year, the association held a one-day conference/summit called Cohousing & Beyond: A Gathering on Collaborative Neighborhoods , in Sacramento, Calif., on Nov. 2. The conference was preceded by two days of bus tours visiting seven different cohousing communities in the area. The day kicked off with a panel discussion on the…
As some of you know, Polestar's 15 years in Hawaii ended dramatically in 2018 with the eruption of the Kilauea Volcano. With our lava insurance check in hand, we set out to find a new campus for our non-profit dedicated to "Spirit, Community and Lifelong Learning". After several years of looking far and wide, we landed in Fort Collins, CO., purchased 20 acres with mixed use zoning and just…
