Cohousing blends environmental concerns and a 'Hi, neighbor!' vibe | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press: "Picture a neighborhood where doors can be left unlocked, where 20 families gather to eat in a common home twice a week, where solar panels help heat homes, where everyone relies on each other and determines the fate of the community together. Sound like an Amish farm? Actually, this is life in more than 100 cohousing communities from Massachusetts to Washington state, places to live where neighborliness and environmental sustainability trump isolationism and consumption."
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Fred Pilot sent this along. These cohousing developments are real intentional communities where people actually decided to live together, unlike condos and HOAs where the "voluntariness" is basically a legal fiction that is used to justify the authority system.
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In Seattle, WA we have quite a few Cohousing communities. They reinvigorate the concept of "neighborhoods", and "family". In June Seattle will host the first National Cohousing Conference. Check out www.cohousing.org/2009/overview for more info.
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