I've been involved in the world of cohousing since 1992 when I moved into Doyle Street Cohousing. I had heard about cohousing from a couple of sources, and saw it as a great way to have a place of my own without being isolated from my neighbors. I've found during these years that it's the perfect way for me to live. I like it because I know my neighbors really well and we function much like an old fashioned village.

In 1995 I became a founding member of a new cohousing group Swan's Market, building a community of 20 households in a renovated historic market place building in downtown Oakland, and I have lived here happily ever since the spring of 2000, when we finally moved in.

I was on the Board of Directors of the Cohousing Association of the United States (Coho/US) for 8 years. If you visit www.cohousing.org, you will find a listing of all the cohousing communities in North America with contact information (as of early 2008 I had visited 64 of them), an excellent FAQ on cohousing, announcements of cohousing events, and much more.

Coho/US is a donation-supported organization. If you are the least bit interested in any aspect of cohousing--even if you don't want to live in a cohousing community--I hope you will join me in your support of the movement to develop cohousing communities--intentional neighborhoods, that are resident-designed built, -managed, and -maintained. Cohousing folks are a remarkable group of contemporary pioneers who believe they've found an excellent antidote to the isolation inherent in the American way of housing ourselves.

Here are three articles about cohousing, two by me, and one by my friend and former neighbor, Lydia Ferrante-Roseberry:

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