East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

October 1, 2007 7:00 PM. 20 attended.

Fairview House Coop Open House

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[while this isn't technically cohousing, it is a great affordable opportunity not far from Ashby BART, perhaps of interest to the many EBCOHO members who ask about such openings-- Raines]

TWO SPACES IN AMAZING CO-OP HOUSE!

Two spaces (rooms) are opening up in Fairview House, a small shared living cooperative and member of the Northern California Land Trust (http://www.nclt.org/... ), in South Berkeley. Our target move-in date is November 1st We have some flexibility regarding when the rooms will be available, so if people have specific timing needs we can try to accommodate them.

If you?re interested we will be having an open house:
Dates:
Monday Oct.1st 7-9pm
Place: 1801 Fairview Street, Berkeley, CA

We are looking for two additional long-term housemates to purchase shares. Current residents are artists and active community members, who work in an array of interesting professions. Fairview House occupies two houses: a large Victorian and a duplex. We are a 4 minute walk from Ashby BART.

About the house: We are organized as a limited equity coop in a single room occupancy configuration with shared living space and a shared kitchen. The houses include storage space; laundry; bike storage; beautiful gardens; a guest room for use by visiting family and friends; and a number of common spaces including a dance and rehearsal studio, art studio and social spaces. There are two pianos in the house and lots of other musical instruments.

We share food and shopping, week night dinners, regular chores and a house meeting, which we all make a commitment to attend every second and fourth Monday. The pantry is loaded with dried fruits, nuts, grains, beans, snacks, and we get CSA boxes weekly. Our shared food cost is $210/month. We buy mostly organic, and a lot of stuff is bought in bulk to reduce cost.

Carrying Charge and Affordability restrictions: The monthly carrying charge is currently $382/room and is scheduled to increase to $432. As a member of the land trust we are committed to keeping housing affordable. Accordingly your adjusted gross income can be no more than 65% of AMI (area median income) or $38,155 at the time you purchase a share. For more details and buy-in amounts see our website which has a complete application packet.

For more information see: http://fairviewhouse....
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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.

East Bay Cohousing is a labor of love organized by Cohousing Coaches Raines Cohen and Betsy Morris, and a project of Planning for Sustainable Communities.