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 Since 1992, a growing number of North Americans have built communities which balance interaction and community with privacy and independence. These co-housing projects are created by residents who develop the community, often with a form of consensus while creating a closely connected, intergenerational community of friends. 

These communities are safe, earth-conscious and people-friendly havens from the turmoil of the city. 

In urban cohousing, every family has its own private space (indoors and outdoors) with kitchen, living areas, bedrooms and baths--a complete house, although it may (or may not) be attached as in a duplex or townhome. Each family uses the private home as desired. Privacy is as easy as entering your own home and closing the door.

Some of the land, however, is common space shared by all. The community decides the use(s) of the common spaces, as long as their decisions are consistent with the laws and codes of their city or suburb.

In addition, every cohousing community has some variation of a common house. The Nomad cohousing community in Colorado is built around a "village green" and has a small common house of 800 square feet connected to, and shared with, a theater. Other cohousing communities have large common houses (3000 to 5000 square feet) containing community dining and kitchen areas, guest rooms for visiting friends and relatives, play areas for different-aged children, craft and hobby areas, and more. Many projects have separate community gardens, workshops, and open areas.  

Some cohousers are considering retrofitting older structures but most are looking at new construction.

Each cohousing dream is unique to the group but most contain:

1. Privacy and separation.

2. Intentional community. Read more.

3. Participation by residents.

4. Common house/areas. Read more.

5. Pedestrian access and diminished role of automobile. Read more. 

6. Nonhierarchical structures and decision making.

7. Homes and facilities that conserve resources and may even use forms of alternative energy.

Does this interest you? We meet in DFW to form ecovillage communities in  the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and the rural areas adjoining the metroplex.

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