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.

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Our Sponsors

Cohousing Coaches

Concierge for all members; Coaching and more for supporting members.

Phoenix Commons

Senior Cohousing @ Park Street Bridge. Aging in Community Study Groups

Golden Gate Cohousing/Parker Street Fdtn

New Cooperative Community in the historic Oak/ville neighborhood

North Oakland is now Eastlake Cohousing

Welcome Folsom EcoHousing

Now a supporting group member of EBCOHO/Cohousing California.

Bay Area Community Land Trust

Membership and advocacy for affordable senior cooperative housing.

Jerry Michalski/Sociate

A visionary connector of people and ideas for The Relationship Economy

Congrats Parker Street Coop

Your supporting membership means a lot to us in EBCOHO.

Yay! Triple Point Cohousing

6 households of adults and kids where Oaktown/Eville/Berkeley meet.

Cohousing California - Resource Network

Web portal to communities, openings, and trainings

Member, US Green Building Council

We are a professional member of USGBC; Raines is a LEED Green Associate.

Prudence Crandall House

Coop house and informal ecovillage with neighbors on 66th Street

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