Ravens' Roost Cohousing

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About the Communities

  • Established
  • Home-sharing
  • Suburban

Founding year

  • 2011

What we do

Units for Sale: 1) 3 bedroom 2 bath up/down . $525,000. Available August 2024.
2) 2 bedroom 1 bath flat. $425,000. Available Sept 2024
for Info call 907-399-2051
Ravens’ Roost is Anchorage’s first and only Cohousing neighborhood. It has a total of 35 homes. There are 32 owner occupied homes and 3 rental units owned by members of the community. Ravens’ Roost is set on 6 acres of land with large sections of native birch and spruce.
Uniques features of Ravens’ Roost include:
1. A large common house with kitchen, dining room, library, kids room, laundry room and 2 guest rooms.
2. A large workshop equipped with multiple building and wood-working tools, ski and bicycle maintenance areas, sewing/craft area, and exercise equipment.
3. Outside of the Common House are raised garden beds for personal use and community dinners. We have a kids fort & swings, a hoop house for extending the growing season and an orchard with apple and cherry trees planted in 2022. We also have a resident beekeeper.
4. The site is conveniently located in southeast Anchorage with easy access to arterial roads, yet still nestled in the foothills of the Chugach Mountain Range. We are close to shopping, restaurants, 2 Universities (UAA and APU), 3 hospitals, and lots of trails for mountain biking, hiking, walking, skiing (cross country and downhill) and snow boarding. A paved bike path connects to many other paved bike paths, making making Ravens’ Roost bike friendly and accessible to many parts of Anchorage by bike.
5. Ravens’ Roost is located within a two mile radius of a High School, three elementary schools and a Jr. High School. We have private and charter schools near by as well.
6. We are located across the road from Ruth Arcand Park with many paths for daily forest walks and xcross country skiing.
We currently have 35 households, many from Anchorage but others from Fairbanks, AK, the east coast, California and the Southwest. We are a multigenerational community from infants to seniors with diverse backgrounds. Detailed bios are available on our website. We are not actively seeking new neighbors but will waitlist interested people. Please contact us through our website: ravensroostcoho.org

Our Mission

Vision: Our neighborhood is a vibrant, diverse community that plays, lives, and works together to create a sustainable and enriching life.
See our Values and Our Commitments to Each Other under “About Us” on our web site.

  • Purpose
  • Home-sharing
  • Community type
  • Cohousing
  • Sustainability practices
  • Waste reduction / composting
  • Permaculture design
  • Activities
  • Property management

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2011
  • Started planning
  • January 1, 2016
  • Started living together
  • 58 Total members
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
Total
82

How to join

We encourage people who want to live in Ravens Roost to learn about the rights and responsibilities involved in living in community and if seriously interested to come and visit.

Basic expectations or agreements for members

Please contact us by emailing in**@*************ho.org to learn more about our community and set up a visit.

Primary decision-making authority

  • Small Leadership Group

A few people (not elected by the broader community) make the major decisions.

Decision-making process

  • Modified Consensus

Generally seek agreement, but have backup methods when consensus isn’t reached.

Governance structure

  • Collaborative/Horizontal

Power and responsibility are shared relatively equally among members.

Conflict resolution approach

Ravens’ Roost has a Coordinating Team that is responsible for overseeing other Teams who focus on Development, Membership, Marketing, Process, Landscape, Common House, etc.

Economic model

  • Independent Finances

Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.

Economic scenarios for this community

  • Members need to pay fees, dues, or similar to live there on a per month or per year basis
  • There is a labor obligation
  • Members typically need to have their own job or other personal source of income to cover their expenses while living in the community?

Additional economic information

Regular fees: $400.00
Labor: Yes (2 hrs/week)
Community-wide Agreements govern our day-to-day community operations. Decisions are made through a proposal and consensus gathering process, via one Core Team and several specialty working teams. All members contribute time, labor and or expertise to carry out activities of the community, including community meals, maintenance, and cleaning. The workload varies but averages 4-6 hours/month.

Shared resources and amenities that are accessible to everyone in the community

Common House, Garden(s), Greenhouse(s), Library, Workshop, Outbuilding(s), Large Scale Kitchen, Fire pit, Swingsets & play areas, Gym or sports area, Internet

Frequency of communal meals

  • About once a week

Significant food acquisition practices

  • Locally sourced

Community activities and engagement

  • Neighborhood, Community Housing, or Homeowner's Association

Substance use culture

  • Substance use appears in public spaces but no pressure
  • Substance use is prohibited in the community
  • Religions
  • Christian
  • Buddhist
  • Jewish
  • Quaker
  • Unitarian Universalist

Gender composition

  • Roughly balanced (no group over 60%)

Age demographics

  • Multi-generational (all ages well represented)

Property status

  • Privately owned

Property owner

  • By a Land Trust, Home Owners Association, or corporation

Setting

  • Suburban

Residential areas outside city centers but within metropolitan regions.

Community type

  • Cohousing

    Private homes with shared common facilities, designed for neighborly
    interaction while maintaining independence.

Sustainability approach

  • Waste reduction / composting
  • Permaculture design

Land practices in our community

  • The community practices permaculture

Self-produced energy

  • Up to 33%

Energy sources used

Self-produced food

  • Up to 33%

Local, organic, or fair trade food

  • Up to 33%

Food systems

  • Community garden
  • Greenhouse / aquaponics

Waste management practices

  • Recycling program
  • Land area size
    6.2 acres

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Location

  • Alaska, United States

Needs and Offers

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1 month ago

Rooms in Beautiful Location in downtown East Austin

Mountain Laurel House has upcoming room openings on August 1 and September 1 to share our house in central East Austin close to downtown. Rent is $925 per month with $75 to cover your share of the utilities and maintenance. You provide your own food. We enjoy sharing a meal at the dining table at least once a month for fun, to check in on our lives, and talk about housekeeping together. To apply, email do*************@***il.com with subject line Room at Mountain Laurel House. Request the brief application questions and we’ll provide more info and answer your questions. Mountain Laurel House is in a great location! It’s on a green cul de sac, with a wooded lot to the southwest and a green open space to the west. It’s close to the East 11th & Rosewood dining and entertainment district and right across from the Carver Library and a bus stop. We’re in walking distance to downtown Austin, the State Capitol, Huston-Tillotson University and a short bike or bus ride to the University of Texas; and, south or east of here, Lady Bird Lake and Boggy Creek hike and bike trails, park lands, swimming pools, pickleball and basketball courts. I kayak on Town Lake aka Lady Bird Lake or swim just across downtown at Deep Eddy or Barton Springs fresh-water, spring-fed swimming pools. We enjoy sharing a meal at the dining table at least once a month for fun, to check in on our lives, and plan housekeeping together. HEB is a short 5 minute drive east on 7th St. and Whole Foods is about a ten minute walk from here on 5th St. Amenities in the house include a dishwasher, utility room with a clothes washer-dryer and an optional clothesline, high-speed internet, a big dining room table for meals or activities, and a large screen TV for movie nights. The yard has beautiful native wildlife habitat gardens, veggie and herb pots, a large Cedar Elm, two Live Oaks, a fruit-bearing Fig, a Champenelle grape vine, and a Chili pequin. The cul de sac is a large park-like
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6 years ago

Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves Books for Sale

Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves, Charles Durrett and Kathryn McCamant introduce Cohousing with stories and pictures of both Danish and American communities. Beautiful photographs and line drawings illustrate the warmly written account of how these communities came to be. Specific information on legal and financial aspects of working with developers, group process, and design issues make this book informative as well as inspiring. This is the book which brought Cohousing to North America. This book is the much prized second edition which has become a rarer and somewhat of a collectors item. Its community case studies were not included in the more recent publication. It preceded Creating Cohousing which is widely available. I acquired 25 cases from a local distributor who closed down. If you would like three or more copies for yourself, to share with your friends or to market your group, please let me know. I would love for them to be made useful and find great homes. Books are paperback (hard copy was not an option at the time from the publisher) all brand new, in Oakland (CA) so could be picked in Oakland or mailed to you. I would very much like to recuperate what I paid which is $10 per book. So, If you would like three or more shipped, I will add the postage, packing and handling fees. I have sold several cases (18 books per case) for $150 per case ($8 per book). I have a little wiggle room on the pricing. Please let me know if you are interested. Use the Send Message button on this page.
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3 years ago

Twin Oaks, an established, income-sharing, village-scale community is seeking new members

Twin Oaks is looking for new members! Founded in 1967, Twin Oaks is an egalitarian, income-sharing community made currently 70 adults and 15 kids, living on 500 forested acres in central Virginia. Twin Oaks has strong social justice values including feminism, racial justice, and queer culture. We host a Queer Gathering and Women’s Gathering each summer, and we have a number of working groups around racial justice issues in general and in an intentional community context. Please visit our website twinoaks.org for more information and directions on how to apply for a Visitor Period. A Visitor Period is the first step towards becoming a member. We can offer: your choice of full-time work in our income-sharing community businesses (heirloom seeds, hammocks, and others) and/or domestic work areas from organic gardening to milking cows and cheese-making to office work to technical jobs and more! an individual room in shared housing; each member has their own personal bedroom and shares a kitchen, living room and bathroom with others in their house. Each residence has its own culture and range of ages. all meals are provided in our communal dining hall and/or in smaller kitchens for individual eating. We generally accommodate all special diets. (gluten-free, vegan, no garlic, etc.) income-sharing includes health-care and monthly stipend for extra We are looking for: people with various life skills and/or a willingness to learn people who share our values of social justice, sustainability and living closely with a diversity of people people with a generally responsible and pro-active approach to community living experience or interest in non-hierarchical, shared decision-making BIPOC, women and non-binary people especially encouraged The first step towards becoming a member is to participate in one of

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