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CoHousing: an antidote to modern day isolation?

By Ben Trefny on February 22, 2010 - 4:06pm
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A new style of living is becoming increasingly popular in the Bay Area, and across the country. It’s called cohousing, and it’s sort of like dorm-style living for adults -- only instead of a room, you get a house. The concept originated in Denmark. Its growth in the United States is thanks in large part to Charles Durrett. He’s the author of CoHousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves. The book has helped inspire more than a hundred cohousing communities across the country, including half a dozen in the East Bay. More recently, Durrett wrote Senior CoHousing: A Community Approach to Independent Living. KALW’s Ben Trefny spoke with Durrett to learn more.

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By Neil Planchon on February 24, 2010 - 8:50am.

Thank you Ben, Thank you Charles Durrett.

For folks who are interested in learning more about Cohousing, please visit the Cohousing Association's (Coho/US) website at http://www.cohousing.org.

Also worthy of note is the National Cohousing Conference is in Boulder CO in June - read more about all the wonderful offerings at http://www.cohousing.org/2010/overview.

If you are in the environs of Washington DC, consider a regional conference at the University of Maryland in College Park, http://www.midatlanticcohousing.org/conf/Conference.html

Another popular way to learn more about all things Cohousing, and to meet like-minded folks, is to sign-up for one of Coho/US' community bus tours and "traveling workshops". Several are scheduled in different parts of the country, and you can read more about them at http://www.cohousing.org/tours.

Other community events are posted at http://www.cohousing.org/tours_events

Thanks again for the interview, Ben
Neil
Cohousing Resident
Coho/US Bus Tours Team
tours@cohousing.org