East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

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East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF http://www.ebcoho.org/ http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/6/a/1/0/global_87807152.jpeg 20031022

Berkeley, CA 94704

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Berkeley, CAUSA 94704

Member since:

September 11, 2011

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Introduction

I am a 60-year-old recent law school graduate and a grandmother of four. I grew up in LA but left my heart in San Francisco. I am a polymath. I write political and economic analysis and articles from the left for public consumption. I build houses.

How did you hear about East Bay Cohousing?

Friends who live in cohousing told me about your organization after I expressed my strong interest in the cohousing movement. I found your website via Internet search.

What does Cohousing mean to you?

At heart, cohousing would provide a stable home in a stable community. Building from that nucleus, this stable community would be composed of empathetic people who knew the value of both private and community space. I have met tens of thousands of people in my lifetime. The quality that the most respected share is empathy. We would reach major decisions by the Consensus Method, which empowers all participants. Our shared spaces would be proudly kept. We would be establish various art and craft shops, ranging from oil portraiture to metal shop with a real oxyacetylene torch.

What's most likely: Rent, Buy, Share, Build, Co-create?

I see value in all means of creating cohousing. I often fantasize about the least capital-intensive means: renting a space in an apartment building with lots of vacant units for my friends. I am a former mortgage lender and real estate broker so I am familiar with many means of creating ownership. (no, it wasn't me. There were still loan underwriters employed by mortgage lenders when I was in the business.) Finally, I have designed and built two of my own homes. With this experience, I would hope to be able to facilitate the creation of many cohousing groups.

Where are you most interested in living?

I seek space in any of the following communities, listed by preference. Albany Berkeley/North Berkeley Telegraph/Temescal/Rockridge El Cerrito near EC BART Convenient public transportation is a must.

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Berkeley, CA

Founded Oct 22, 2003

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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.