What Is Cohousing?

We believe that in modern American life, individual privacy has been taken to an extreme and we have become cut off from our neighbors and distanced from one another.

Cohousing—developed in Denmark in the 1970s—offers a solution to being isolated in your own neighborhood. Cohousing typically consists of 12–48 clustered homes whose residents own individual dwellings but share many common facilities. Centered around a "common house" which may provide facilities for group dining, workshops, recreation facilities, childcare, etc., cohousing balances privacy and community in a functional and sustainable way. Learn more about cohousing by visiting the website of the Cohousing Association of the United States.