This schedule of Temescal Creek is fairly typical of cohousing communities. The seven households meet twice a month to take care of administration and planning; there is also one "workday" a month ...

As a kid growing up in the busy beehive of a large apartment complex on the north side of Chicago during the '50s, Joan Lichterman got used to having a lot of people in her life: She and her ...

Two miles up Broadway in North Oakland is Temescal Creek Cohousing, where the Karlsons have found neighbors to know and trees for Greta to climb. This “retrofit community” was started in 1999 by five ...

Cohousing has been in Colorado for decades, but the Geos Project is unique, offering residents the highest level of energy efficiency. Cohousing focuses on relationships with neighbors because of ...

New Village Press, an Oakland-based publisher specializing in books about community building, is hosting a free public walking tour of the lower Temescal neighborhood on Saturday. The 90-minute ...

It's dinner time at the Swan's Market Cohousing Community where three times a week residents sit down together to enjoy a meal. This time it's Jane and George Collier's turn to cook. "A mushroom ...

Last week I went with a friend to the “Bites Off Broadway” mobile food pod in North Oakland organized by Karen Hester. A half-dozen food trucks were parked on 45th Street in front of the ...