East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

October 4, 2009 7:00 PM - 8 attended

The Communal Grapevine: Shared Living/Group Houses/Co-ops Discussion

Prudence Crandall House (map)

EBCOHO Supporting Member Spring Friedlander is organizing this ongoing series designed to bring together people involved in shared living to talk about the challenges and opportunities. Note this is not an official EBCOHO event - please contact her for any info about it. -- Raines
Spring writes:
The Communal Grapevine convenes again for those of us who are or want to
be living collectively. In collective living we generally have our own bedroom and share our kitchen, living room, bathrooms and yards. In co-housing each household has their own and the community has shared
ones in addition. Our intention is to gather about four times per year either on Friday or Sunday evenings.

Agenda
7:00 - 7:10 Introduce ourselves
7:10 - 7:30 Resource Person on form and lessons learned
7:30 - 7:35 New people introduce themselves
(People considering collective living are welcome.)
7:35 - 7:45 Match households with openings and seekers.
7:45 - 7:50 Prioritize issues to discuss.
7:50 - 9:00 Discuss issues in collective households by priority voted on.

Our household will provide a vegetarian dinner, sliding scale $$ contribution ($4 - 12) from you. Alternatively, if you bring a food dish to share, that’s your contribution.

Spring R. Friedlander lives collectively at Prudence Crandall House (PCH). In addition to sharing the common physical space, the three
generations of residents of PCH share some dinners, house meetings, and
work parties. She will share some lessons learned and current issues.
She will review their chore list and the topic categories covered during
their house meetings which are possessions, decorating, food/kitchen,
chores/garden, business, security/safety, guests, interpersonal,
sustainable practices/ green.

If you would like an issue discussed we will write it down. Then we will
discuss the ones with the most interest as expressed by votes.

Topics discussed at earlier gatherings of the Communal Grapevine
included getting the work done in an equitable manner, cleanliness
standards, sound, how to interact in a caring way, child rearing
practices, the extent to share our lives, finances, paying people to
work on or in the house, the impact of relationships within the house,
how to live in a more sustainable, equitable way, etc. We can all gain
from learning what has and has not worked in other households.

For additional resources go to
http://housing.barrin...
CraigsList under shared housing east bay
http://directory.ic.o...
http://www.cohousing....

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8 attended

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Zoe

nice group of people, the host was very interested in encouraging people to do cohousing options
spring friedlander
Supporting EBCOHO Member through 4/27/11&Prudence Crandall House

+5 guests
A former member

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