About Cascade Cohousing Cascade Cohousing About Cascade Cohousing Cascade Cohousing is built in South Hobart, a Hobart suburb that sits between the city and Mt Wellington. Twenty adults and 5 children live here in 13 households. When our final two houses are built our population will probably reach 23 adults and at least 6 children . We have a central common house with rooms for kitchen, dining, lounge, kids, TV, guests, laundry and workshop. We run common meals 4 nights a week and they are very popular.
Common meals are one of our greatest sucesses and are at the core of our common values.
Half the residents of Cascade Cohousing express a preference for a vegetarian diet and we have agreed to exclude meat, other than fish, from the common house. We have a comfortable consensus that this restriction should apply to common meals, but the restriction on meat at private functions in the common house is more controversial. Houses are constructed from airated concrete blocks or from timber and have two stories. All houses have good solar access from the north and many have features such as greenhouses for trapping the suns heat. The grounds of cascade Cohousing slope to the east and there are views of both Mt Wellington and the River Derwent.