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John Patrick and Diane chat with Ecogal about how they preserve farmland, create a neighborhood, and provide access to farmland for a new farmer. BV&F follows models of cohousing and agrihoods. They plan to practice sustainable principles for constructing and maintaining the property and the farm.

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Loneliness Is on the Rise. Are Closer Neighbors a Solution? [video]

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Loneliness is on the rise, and it may be as harmful to health as cigarette smoking, medical experts say. Now some Americans are embracing a collaborative living arrangement called cohousing as a solution.

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Ten Lessons in Neighborliness from a Cohousing Community

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"Emerge, connect, get your hands in the soil and your feet on the pedals of a bike. You can start by becoming an intentional, committed, and creative neighbor." Read more about what Courtney E. Martin has learned from ten years of living in an intentional community in Oakland, California.

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CoHousing Houston Interview of BV&F Member Rebecca Selove [podcast]

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Kelli Soika of the podcast CoHousing Houston visits with Rebecca Selove, a founding member of Burns Village & Farm. Rebecca speaks with Kelli about her introduction to cohousing as a concept, the last community she lived in called Blueberry Hill, and the roots and future of Burns Village and Farm.

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Aging-In-Place in Cohousing Communities, Sherry Cummings

The author of Senior Cohousing: A New Way Forward for Active Older Adults shared her presentation about Aging-In-Place in Cohousing Communities. Download the Power Point presentation and listen to her audio recording from the September 20, 2021.

Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves

By Kathryn McCamant & Charles Durrett. (2011) New Society Publishers A movement that began in Europe has taken hold in North America because it provides some real answers for the increasing number of people who stop to look at where and how they live and at their impact on the environment. Cohousing is a way for a group of people to work together to develop places to live that offer both privacy and community with the values of an old-fashioned neighborhood-safety, independence, mutual concern. Many of these new ventures are up and running and many more are in the planning stages. Delivering more bang for the buck, this innovative approach to housing is challenging the formidable housing problems we face, and it is succeeding.

Happily Ever Aftering in Cohousing: A Handbook for Community Living

By Charles Durrett (2015) Habitat Press Publishing An excellent resource to share with others what high-functioning cohousing is about. Learn the tools and patterns that have proven successful for living in cohousing. For over four decades in the US and Europe, communities have achieved and maintained their goal of socially engaged and vibrant cohousing. This guide makes a great gift for friends and family as well as new members of cohousing communities and people who live in communities that aren’t functioning at their full potential.

Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities

By Kathryn McCamant & Charles Durrett. (2011) New Society Publishers The original “cohousing bible” written by the architects and partners Katie McCamant and Chuck Durrett, who studied the Denmark cohousing model and were the first to bring the concepts to America. With over 120 cohousing communities now in existence in North America, Katie McCamant and Chuck Durrett bring us a totally updated “must-have” book for cohousers, and anyone interested in creating more people-friendly neighborhoods.

Personal Growth: Maybe the Most Important Reason for Cohousing

This is a webchat delivered by Karen Gimnig, a Professional Cohousing Consultant and Communications Director at Cohousing USA

Growing Inclusivity in Cohousing

This is a blog written by Rosemary Linares, who identifies herself as living in a Midwest cohousing community. She describes a series of events that include conflict within her community, and the ways the community grappled with individuals' personal histories and deep feelings underlying the events, as well as the evolution of decision-making rules over a number of years.