Bankrate.com - Cohousing creates communities by design

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Codicts Team
  • October 6, 2007
  • Sustainability

Bankrate.com, a mortgage info site, published a very extensive article about cohousing:

Cohousing creates communities by design

Believing that no barriers are needed between good neighbors, in 1986, a pair of homeowners on N Street in Davis, Calif., tore down the fence separating their tract homes to create a common backyard.

Within two years, the shared yard encompassed four properties and Kevin Wolf and his neighbors “were doing potlucks together.”

N Street Cohousing is featured prominently as are Manzanita Village, and Bartimaeus Cohousing.

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