Cohousing: Building Seattle Green

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Codicts Team
  • March 24, 2008
  • Sustainability

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an interview with Coho/US Executive Directory Craig Ragland of Songaia Cohousing.

Ragland gives the basics of cohousing touching on its appeal to the mainstream and its ecological possibilities:

Part of what makes cohousing attractive is that it specifically attempts to create a model that is close enough to the mainstream. It can be financed by conventional bank financing, and frequently uses production housing to help control costs. It’s a part of the broader, intentional communities movement, or can be seen as part of that. But it’s close enough to the mainstream that it can actually happen more readily, and that appeals to a large number of Americans.

Read the whole article on Cohousing in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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