We are a six-bedroom intentional community (spanning both units of a two-unit building) in the Central Square neighborhood of Cambridge, MA. Our values including cooking and sharing meals together, playing games together, building community through hosting events, and sharing with each other the things that delight us in life!
We have a shared mostly vegetarian food system (with limited purchases of sustainable seafood), although housemates may choose to individually purchase meat or other food items. Every housemate cooks one meal per month for the house, and additional cooking and community-building efforts are built into the chores system.
We occupy both units of a two-unit building on a relatively quiet street near Central Square and MIT. We have two main common spaces on the first floor, including ample kitchen space, with six bedrooms distributed across the second and third floors. With six bathrooms, the house has a luxurious bathroom-to-resident ratio! The house was renovated in 2010 and has built-in heat and air conditioning, tankless water heaters, and two sets of in-unit laundry machines. We also have ample bike storage in an enclosed back porch, driveway parking spots, and a spacious backyard that has hosted a container garden, potlucks, and outdoor movies. We have interest in converting much of the lawn to native vegetation, or putting it to other uses that benefit the household and the broader community.
We aspire to create a warm, welcoming, and inclusive community, and we value diversity along many axes, including race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender identity, gender expression, class, education, ability, religion, age, and occupation. We make most decisions by consensus, including decisions about who lives in the house and how we share time and resources as a household.
To learn more about any openings, visit https://hexapod.weebly.com/openings.html.
A few people (not elected by the broader community) make the major decisions.
Everyone must agree before moving forward.
Power and responsibility are shared relatively equally among members.
Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.
Regular fees: Yes
Labor: Yes
Members with pre-existing debt: allowed
Expected labor contributions are 2-3 hours per week contributing to house chores and cooking a meal for the house once per month.
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