Below are highlights from the tour. The Ravenna project used a 10,500 square foot lot in the Green Lake neighborhood of Seattle to build six cottages and three carriage units clustered around a landscaped courtyard and fountain. Seattle Cohousing Seattle Cohousing is a new urban cohousing development just over a mile from downtown that is scheduled to be completed this fall. It will include approximately 27 townhomes and flats clustered around a common courtyard and a common hall, all on 1.25 acres. Cohousing is a type of collaborative housing in which residents have private houses, townhouses or flats with their own kitchens, but also share extensive common areas such as a large dining room, kitchen, lounges, meeting rooms, and a workshop.
Residents also share lawn mowers, gardening tools, and washing machines.
Cohousing communities are managed by residents, who do much of the work to maintain the property, prepare common meals shared by other residents, and meet regularly to develop policies for the community. Judkins Park Judkins Park is a neighborhood of 165 homes near I-90 in Seattle's Central Area developed in the late 1990s by the nonprofit developer Homesight. Homesight's mission is to revitalize distressed neighborhoods without displacing current residents. Homesight uses a variety of standard plans that provide variety and compatibility with site conditions. NewHolly Park Seattle Housing Authority is redeveloping an aging 1940s-era public housing project in south Seattle.