Cohousing is is a community development model created with the design input of the residents, according to common goals such as sustainability, community, and living well by sharing more. It includes individual home ownership supplemented by shared ownership of additional facilities and common areas. Cohousing communities are self-managed by the residents using a proven system for self-governance, for example Dynamic Governance. There are over two dozen cohousing communities in the Bay Area to d …

Imagine lively people-scaled  communities dotting the San Francisco Bay Area - places co-created by their residents for raising kids, for  retirement, for growing food or simply  living well by sharing more. The Bay Area already has  ecovillages, and cohousing neighborhoods, resident-owned housing cooperatives, and group houses -- real world places where we can live more sustainably through a more cooperative way of life. You can have both privacy and community when you know your neighbors on pu …

Individuals or families interesed in forming a new co-housing community in Santa Cruz or Soquel area. If you don't know what co-housing is, look at http://www.cohousing.org/what_is_cohousing Meet once a month to share interests and create a core group to develop a new project of 15 - 30 households sharing community resources and good times.