We are the first senior cohousing community in New England!
Our 26 households are all moved in and doing the cohousing thing every day!
Our community is in Littleton MA, a small farming town which is also on the commuter rail line to Boston. So we check the boxes for both small town and suburb!
We have wide-ranging interests and talents – birding, gardening, woodworking, bicycling, cooking, kayaking, quilting and other fiber arts, yoga, singing and playing an orchestra-full of instruments, traveling, and the list goes on…
We are working fulltime or part time or are blissfully retired.
We are mostly long-time residents of other towns in the area, and have welcomed several ‘outlanders’ to the group.
Our original founders and core group have been together for several years and it’s been rather remarkably stable as forming cohousing goes, so we know each other well and are grateful every day for the realization of this dream.
Our biggest success story so far has been in community building among our participants, and we think that has much to do with our governance framework, sociocracy. People are engaged, energized, finding new connections, and having fun together.
Vision: We envision a world where seniors can live in a close-knit community of neighbors who know and care about each other; where they can share resources, be independent, and participate in the life of the community.
Mission: To thrive as the first 55+ cohousing community in New England; to enjoy and promote the benefits of living in community.
We plan to maintain a Wait Pool for resales. The details of this process are taking shape.
Call us to set up a time to walk around the property!
The whole membership decides collectively.
Decisions proceed unless someone has a reasoned objection.
Organized in circles or domains with distributed authority.
In October 2018, we implemented Sociocracy as our system of governance. New neighbors are expected to take the experiential and participatory introductory course through Sociocracy for All, as ‘basic training’.
Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.
Regular fees: Yes
Labor: Encouraged or suggested
Hager Homestead will shift to an HOA structure when the project closes after the Common House is renovated.
Common House, Garden(s), Workshop, Outbuilding(s)
Smaller municipalities with local services but rural character.
Private homes with shared common facilities, designed for neighborly
interaction while maintaining independence.
A residential project: people live here as their primary home.
An institution, business, network, or project that isn’t a residence (e.g. a learning center, farm, or network with no one living there full-time).
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