Successful Cohousing around the world.
Cohousing is an innovative housing model that brings together private homes with shared community spaces. It blends the autonomy of private ownership with the intentionality of collective living. SOURCE: Common House
New Ground
New Ground housing development is not an old people’s home — the women like to say they “look out for each other, not look after each other”. Twenty-one of the original 26 still live here today. They come from vastly different walks of life but are united by one radical idea: what if we didn’t have to grow old alone but were able to share a home with our friends?
London, UK
Muir Commons
1990. Muir Commons is made up of 26 homes on just under three acres. Each individual house includes complete kitchens and private yards. Houses come in three models ranging from 808 to 1381 square feet.
David, CA, USA
Fair Oaks, CA, USAFair Oaks
Fair Oaks EcoHousing offers a balance of privacy and community. EcoHousing, a type of cohousing community with a strong green focus, combines private homes with extensive community facilities to create neighborhoods that address the needs of singles, working parents and seniors.
US Cohousing Alliance
Cohousing is an intentional community that combines private living spaces with shared indoor and outdoor spaces, designed to support connection, collaboration, and an interdependent life.
Steve Dubb, March 2026Shelterforce article
COHOUSING PROMISES LOWER COSTS. WHY HASN’T IT WORKED IN THE US?
From shared meals to shared tools, cohousing offers a vision of lower-cost, community-centered living. While that vision is taking hold in the UK, communities in the US face barriers that drive up costs and limit who can participate.
Brian Libby, March 2025Oregon Artswatch
Imported from Denmark, co-housing as community building, the term “co-housing” was coined and where the concept first proliferated. The term denotes a community-oriented multifamily housing model in which residents live in private dwellings but share larger communal living spaces such as kitchens, gathering spaces and greenspace.
Cohousing Tedtalk
Cohousing: The Future of Community and Human Connection.
Fueled by her own suburban loneliness and a desire for community, Trish became a founder of Denver’s newest cohousing community. She believes that we are most alive when we are connected, and that intergenerational communal living offers an alternative to our increasingly isolated world.
Trish Becker-Hafnor, 2019
Bay State Cohousing
Ten years ago, a group of nearly 30 households, comprising millennials, baby boomers, and ages in between, banded together with the goal of funding and creating co-housing for themselves in the Boston area. Now, their dream, Bay State Cohousing, has come to fruition.
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Anna Leach, 2018Guardian article
Happy together: lonely baby boomers turn to co-housing
For older people, co-housing offers a sense of community without losing independence. The four-storey complex of 41 units is designed to foster a sense of community. Apartment windows face each other and walkways create a visible sense of life and movement.
‘It is an incredible feeling of security, safety and peacefulness.’
Kate Youde, 2018Co-Housing
The growing housing model involves residents creating a community of self-contained homes with shared spaces such as a common house, guest room for visitors, garden and laundry. From Architects Journal