Overview Home Info Request How to become an Owner Overview Events Bulletin Board Members History Site Location Site Plan Area Info Home Owners Association Links Overview Cohousing is a type of housing that overcomes much of the alienation found in many modern subdivisions where few people know their neighbors. Cohousing is characterized by private dwellings with their own kitchen, living-dining room, etc, as well as extensive neighborhood facilities. Cohousing neighborhoods are planned, designed and managed by the residents.
Future residents work with builders, developers and architects to build their neighborhood.
The way the neighborhood is designed facilitates social interaction between neighbors. Residents in cohousing neighborhoods often have optional weekly group meals in a community house. This type of housing began in Denmark in the late 1970s. Two students, Charles Durrett and Katie McCament were exposed to the cohousing neighborhood concept while studying architecture in Denmark. There are now over 50 completed cohousing neighborhoods in the United States with more than a hundred in development.