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Joani Blank, a cohousing pioneer who passed last August, has continued her impact and influence through a legacy gift provided to Coho/US. We are pleased and humbled to receive this gift from the Joani Blank Trust. And inspired to do more to grow cohousing and nurture our communities! Joani was instrumental in the growth and… Read More

The author of a recent article in Christianity Today examines how cohousing’s “radical hospitality” can be an inspiration and opportunity for churches to follow. Both Alice Alexander of Coho/US and Courtney Martin, Temescal Commons Resident and author of The New Better Off (which I just started reading, and wow – already highly recommend!) are interviewed…. Read More

This Thanksgiving break, I’ve been especially grateful for my cohousing bubble. When I drive home in the dark at 6pm after a long business trip, I look up the hill and appreciate seeing the lights on in the common house. My worries and concerns of the external world stay outside the door as I join… Read More

The Inner Game of Aging podcast features our own Cindy Turnquist this week! “What is co-housing? Wikipedia defines this as an “intentional community clustered around shared space”. But that barely scratches the surface of the possibilities inherent in the concept. Today’s guest, Cindy Turnquist, and Lee discuss this intriguing community concept and how it addresses… Read More

Editor’s Note: Learn more from a webinar on reserve studies we are planning with National Condo Advisors for January 2017; and at the 2017 National Cohousing Conference, where Darlene, and cohousers Sharon Villines and Lyons Witten will be presenting about reserve studies. Also at the conference, National Condo Advisors will be exhibiting as part of… Read More

Editor’s Note: Annie Lehman has joined the Coho/US Board of Directors. Welcome to Annie! Having never lived in an intentional community (college doesn’t count), I don’t know what it will feel like when I move next April to PDX Commons, a senior (I prefer to say boomer) cohousing project currently forming in SE Portland. I… Read More

Back in 1974, when a group of four of us started Sandhill Farm, I started down a path that ultimately added up to my dedicating my life to building community. While that commitment has never wavered (the need for community today as more urgent than ever), I’ve frequently adjusted the lens through which I see… Read More

Placitas Sage Cohousing, located just north of Albuquerque, in Placitas New Mexico, is so excited to welcome our “FarAway” members for an In-Gathering over the Thanksgiving holidays. Since we are still in the process of getting our land re-zoned and have not yet been able to start building our homes, we are focused on building… Read More

Editor’s Note: Resilience is a theme of the 2017 National Cohousing Conference where Charles Durrett will be a featured presenter. In 2008, friend and author Bill Thomas asked me to critique the manuscript of his first novel, The Tribes of Eden. “Tribes” is the story of a near future collapse of the American government and… Read More

I’m traveling to Durham NC where I’ll be working with a cohousing community (my 61st if you’re keeping score at home). I’ll be using one of my favorite approaches: a four-day intensive immersion. After arriving Wed evening I’ll get a good night’s sleep and then begin work in earnest in the morning. My time with… Read More

That title may have gotten your attention! Your Cohousing Association is, thank you, alive and well – but only as long as we receive financial support from our communities and individuals. Coho/US is by design a lean and mean organization; our financial needs are modest, but we do need steady support. Has your community made… Read More