East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

June 10, 2010 5:00 PM - 7 attended

Community Living Abroad and Afar, Cheap and Warm: Brainstorming/Discussion (SF)

Interested in building community, but frozen out by the Northern California/Bay Area housing market?

Join Hub Bay Area Founding Member/Cohousing Coach Raines Cohen and experienced international resident Linder Allen (former boardmember of the Association of Americans Resident Overseas (AARO)) for a conversation about community and the many ways to find and co-create it in various warm, stable, and affordable places, from Hawaii to France and Egypt (Linder has lived in both) and beyond, for retirement or just simple living. Together with you, we'll outline opportunities and obstacles, debunk myths and solve mysteries, and see who's interested in further exploration, socials, or learning together.

We'll also share some info on more-affordable community living opportunities in the farther reaches of Northern California, as well as ownership models (including fractional ownership) that can further reduce costs and add flexibility to your life.

Meeting is organized by East Bay Cohousing (EBCOHO); $10 per person for space rental/meeting fees ($5 for EBCOHO supporting members).

This will be our first meeting at the new Hub SOMA coworking space in the SF Chronicle building in downtown San Francisco. Please arrive promptly, as we'll have to wrap up by 6, although some folks may go out for drinks afterwards.

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7 attended

3.002 (2 ratings)

Event Host

Raines Cohen
Cohousing Coach and Aging In Community Author, Co-Organizer
Rachel
Supporting EBCOHO Member through 8/8/2011

I was disappointed by this meetup since it felt rather disorganized. There wasn't an agenda and we seemed to be chatting more about living abroad. I didn't feel the event was worth $10.
scott adams

I think before one starts to think about living abroad they need to understand and define the benefits of community living. Moving to another country alone or without already having a community is nothing new. Whether a group chooses to follow the co-housing model or form an intentional community, the first step starts with forming a group of like minded people, not real estate or architecture.
brigitte Everett
Supporting EBCOHO Member through 1/27/2011
Camilla Schneider
Miriam Shipp
First EBCOHO member still active
A former member

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Imagine lively people-scaled communities dotting the San Francisco Bay Area - places co-created by their residents for raising kids, for retirement, for growing food or simply living well by sharing more. The Bay Area already has ecovillages, and cohousing neighborhoods, resident-owned housing cooperatives, and group houses -- real world places where we can live more sustainably through a more cooperative way of life. You can have both privacy and community when you know your neighbors on purpose, in day-to-day relationships based on common vision and values.

East Bay Cohousing (EBCOHO) is a Bay Area-wide MeetUp. We connect a wide variety of kindred spirits and resources. We support individuals wanting to learn more, forming groups looking to create community together, and members of existing communities. We are mostly in the East Bay and San Francisco; others are from the North and South Bay, Los Angeles, Nevada, and other parts of the US and Mexico.

There are over two dozen cohousing communities in the greater Bay Area, (more cohousing in Oakland than any other U.S. city). There are also dozens of other emerging and long-established intentional communities. EBCOHO members have recently bought or rented homes in cohousing neighborhoods and cooperatively owned apartment buildings in Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland , Pleasant Hill, Grass Valley, Santa Rosa, and Nevada City. We have members living in Swan's Market Cohousing, Triple Point, Temescal Commons, Berkeley Cohousing, Parker Street Coop, Berkeley Town House, Addison Court Coop and established forming groups like East Lake Cohousing (formerly North Oakland Cohousing).

Extra bonus for 2012: The National Cohousing Conference is coming to town in June!

We host EBCOHO events for members, and link you to other events featuring a global network of friends and allies: pioneers in cooperative culture and sustainable communities: urban farmers, affordable housing developers, green builders, and creative visionaries in the movements for more open, user-friendly and collaborative technologies, economies, and governments. There's a global reinvention of communiies going on - both on the ground and online -- and the Bay Area is one of the world's epicenters.

EBCOHO has more events than our MeetUp-based home page can show fully, so please click on our Calendar to see more. Join for free to get involved! There's no charge for basic membership, but supporting members get discounts on some events, including socials, and workshops, cohousing books, and Cohousing Coaching.

Join us for an orientation, for social events, discussion, talks with exciting speakers, and hands-on workshops to learn the tools for developing good group relationships, and the real estate development process.. Find others who share your vision for supportive neighbors. Do it for yourself, for your family, for your parents, do it for the Earth! Make 2012 the year to deepen YOUR community connections.