East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

Forming Groups

Forming groups in the area we currently know of are:

EBCOHO Supporting Group Member North Oakland Cohousing is now sometimes known as Eastlake Cohousing and is seeking members again after a year of working intensively on a site at Claremont and Telegraph that turned out not to meet their needs (and a couple years to unwind from that plan). The group is aiming to acquire an occupied apartment building near Oakland's Lake Merritt and move in gradually over time. Keep an eye on our calendar for some of their orientations and socials.
EBCOHO Supporting Members Amos and Annie have a vision for a micro-cohousing community in North Oakland, and are seeking people to join them in the quest. Learn more here.
EBCOHO supporting member Spring Friedlander (involved in this group for over a decade!) is looking (as of 2011) for people to buy or rent homes adjacent to her group home, Prudence Crandall house, in North Oakland near Telegraph Avenue.
The MacArthur Transit Village project is finally getting underway, after decades of planning, and we've had a bunch of EBCOHO members, including Spring, express interest in getting cohousing integrated into the plans there.
EBCOHO member Aurora Levin Morales has been looking for allies to join her in creating Springwater Chemically Accessible Eco-Village (named for Berkeley City Council member Dona Spring). Her vision is of a trailer park full of "tiny homes" that can provide mobile homeownership for people who find conventional housing stock physically challenging to live in -- and add the option of easy relocation should environmental factors make a particular location unlivable. join the conversation on our message boards.
EBCOHO member Kelly Simpson is organizing a mini-cohousing retrofit San Francisco Backyard Neighborhood and Learning Center with three very active member families who have met with a real-estate agent and a mortgage broker and are preparing to meet with a lawyer. They are hoping to buy a 4-unit building within the next several months, so they are searching for another like-minded family with the same home-buying time frame.
Bay Area Community Land Trust (BACLT) is centered around Berkeley but also looking at potential sites in nearby cities, this group is working on changing city law to encourage affordable limited-equity housing cooperatives, especially to support members of existing coops who are "Aging In Community. Co-sponsored a bus tour with us visiting cohousing and senior housing coops in Davis in 2009. Learn more about Community Land Trusts in this YES! Magazine Article.
Local green builder and EBCOHO member Dan Antonioli is looking for members to join 611 EcoVillage, the small urban community he's created in the Temescal/Uptown neighborhoods, just off of MLK on 32d Street. He is transitioning from a rental model and seeking members ready and willing to become investors and co-owners of the community. There's also a studio available for rent as of January, 2012.

There's a separate MeetUp for Silicon Valley Cohousing, and some searching groups. We're part of Cohousing California, and we support the national nonprofit cohousing Association of the United States (Coho/US).

There are also several smaller "core groups" of friends who have been talking for various lengths of time about creating community together. While we can't list these publicly, we can make introductions, where appropriate - that's one of the things we do with our paid supporting members.

We are also increasingly approached by developers and local real estate professionals with potential sites. The more you fill out your member profile here, the better we can match you with these opportunities. If you know of an opportunity, please contact us!

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Ninth Street	March 25, 2012 5:18 AM	Raines Cohen
Fort Awesome	November 27, 2011 12:35 PM	Raines Cohen
Summer Sublets	May 11, 2011 4:13 PM	Raines Cohen
Doyle Street	May 5, 2011 4:34 PM	Raines Cohen
Golden Gate Cohousing	May 18, 2012 12:36 PM	Jeff Billings
Eastlake Cohousing	March 31, 2011 10:46 PM	Raines Cohen
Oakland Morehouse	June 9, 2011 10:35 AM	former member
MultiCoho	April 5, 2012 5:34 AM	Raines Cohen
Churcha Soul	August 5, 2010 2:41 PM	Raines Cohen
Berkeley Town House	July 10, 2010 8:08 AM	Betsy Morris
Group Houses and Co-ops	March 25, 2012 6:06 AM	Raines Cohen
Established Cohousing Neighborhoods	November 28, 2011 2:51 PM	Betsy Morris

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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.