Intentional community of private homes clustered around shared space
Cohousing playground next to common house
Cohousing[1] is an intentional community of private homes clustered around shared space. The term originated in Denmark in the late 1960s.[2] Each attached or single-family home has traditional amenities, including a private kitchen. Shared spaces typically feature a common house, which may include a large kitchen and dining area, laundry, and recreational spaces. Shared outdoor space may include parking, walkways, open space, and gardens. Neighbors also share resources like tools and lawnmowers.
Households have independent incomes and private lives, but neighbors collaboratively plan and manage community activities and shared spaces. The legal structure is typically a homeowner association or housing cooperative. Community activities feature regularly scheduled shared meals, meetings, and workdays. Neighbors gather for parties, games, movies, or other events. Cohousing makes it easy to form clubs, organize child and elder care, and carpool.
Cohousing facilitates interaction among neighbors and thereby provides social, practical, economic, and environmental benefits.[3][4]
^Cohousing definition Archived 16 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine (American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin 2000).
^Caves, R. W. (2004). Encyclopedia of the City. Routledge. p. 119.
^McCamant, Kathryn; Durrett, Charles. "Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves." Berkeley, Ca.: Ten Speed Press, 1994.
^Durrett, Charles. "Senior Cohousing: A Community Approach to Independent Living." Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, 2009.
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