East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

Brigid Collective

Brigid Collective, established 1985, is a relaxed functional cooperative in a comfortably clean house. Regular house meetings held weekly honor our primary principles of clear, respectful communication and consensus decision-making.

NEW! Visit Brigid Collective on May 20, 2012 as part of Affordable Housing Week. Details.

We cover a range of age, class backgrounds, customs and pursuits. The household has some pagan roots (hence the name--the household was formed on that holiday).

We care about the world and helping to make it a better place. This is often reflected in our habits and choices of work. We tend toward education, art, nonprofits, activism and service.

We are located in West Berkeley on a moderately quiet street. We're near a small shopping district, major bus routes, 15 minute walk from BART. The house is lovely, 7 generous bedrooms. We have abundant common space including a spacious attic, an ample backyard and garden.

Some specific agreements include no live-in pets, minimal scented products, no tobacco smokers and no drug or alcohol dependent members. Maintaining the soundness and cleanliness of our home requires a commitment of at least two hours of chores per week, an occasional retreat and a half-day work party every few months. Each member cooks vegetarian, mostly organic meals for the whole group twice a month. Since our schedules vary, we have a house log book that we use for daily communication.

The last opening we know of was in 2010, and here's what they said at the time: If the preceding sounds like a co-op where you would like to contribute your energy and time, then please read our preliminary questions here (join the EBCOHO MeetUp for free for access) and share your answers with them (not the EBCOHO MeetUp organizers). Finding the right fit is more important to us than filling the space.

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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.