East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

temescal creek

Temescal Creek cohousing, the East Bay's first "retrofit cohousing neighborhood," had a home up for sale in April, 2011: (free EBCOHO membership and MeetUp login required to view)

2BR1Ba home for sale

Plus, we learned of a potential summer sublet of a room in the community that could provide the opportunity to experience cohousing in a try-before-you-buy fashion:

large room with closet sublet for Summer (July-August?), perhaps longer (Reportedly under contract; EBCOHO free membership and MeetUp login required to view)

NEW! As of 5/16 there's a short-term sublet of a 2BR flat there in late June:

June 19-27 2BR Sublet at Temescal Creek (EBCOHO free membership and MeetUp login required to view)

Historical notes: the community had a potential adjacent new-member home for sale (withdrawn from the market) and TWO rental openings last year (both since filled), one short-term sublet and one housemate:

Dec 12-Jan 20 sublet of upstairs unit

The 12-home (last we checked) community, in North Oakland's Temescal neighborhood, not too far from Rockridge and MacArthur BART stations, Piedmont Avenue's restaurant row, and the 51st & Broadway shopping, was featured in an article in Cohousing magazine (January, 2005):
Retrofit cohousing: A different kind of fixer-upper.

The community was founded in 1999, in escrow after just three months of meetings. Members bought three nextdoor 1920s duplexes, and later two more houses nextdoor, with gradual expansion since then.

Later, it created a common house with a unit above; selling the unit helped pay for the Common House, which was financed using individual home-equity lines of credit.

It started as "Tenants In Common" legally and later went through the condominium conversion process, becoming not one but initially two separate homeowner associations (HOAs). Members were paid for the year-long work of obtaining planning approvals and an easement from a nextdoor commercial property owner.

See our photo album for more on this unique community.

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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	January 11, 2012 10:59 AM	Jeff Billings
Eastlake Cohousing	March 31, 2011 10:46 PM	Raines Cohen
Oakland Morehouse	June 9, 2011 10:35 AM	Oceana Lott
MultiCoho	December 27, 2010 9:22 PM	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	December 24, 2011 12:37 PM	Raines Cohen
Established Cohousing Neighborhoods	November 28, 2011 2:51 PM	Betsy Morris
Forming Groups	November 28, 2011 6:05 AM	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.