East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

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Berkeley, CA 94704

Location:

Castro Valley, CAUSA 94546
Hometown: Castro Valley

Member since:

December 15, 2009

Introduction

I run an artist community and we have several houses linked together I think our community interests are complimentary. We define ours as Intentional Community.

How did you hear about East Bay Cohousing?

meet up

What does Cohousing mean to you?

houses, not rooms. Ours is smaller scale, closer together, more intimate than yours.

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

We co-create. All Intentional Communities set their intentions and develop according to the mission and vision of the founders.

Where are you most interested in living?

I would just like to co-mingle at this point. I don't know what your group can do for me or my community, except that networking is valuable.

Raines Cohen

Julie, thanks for becoming part of East Bay Cohousing. We'd love to set up a field trip to come visit and learn from what you've done there. We get a lot of people interested in affordable cooperative housing for artists here in the Berkeley/Oakland area. If you like you can create a page about the community here in the "About" section and add some pictures.

Dec 24, 2009 4:29 PM
Joshua

Hi there! Congrats on your new Meetup Group! I work at Meetup HQ with the Community Support Team, so if you ever need any help, please let us know. I also recommend that you check out our newly updated Help page at http://www.meetup.com/help/. Have a great time Meeting up!

Dec 21, 2009 3:20 PM

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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.