We are seeking community around shared housing and meals in a large, urban house in downtown Denver. Open-minded, open-hearted, compassionate, self-aware. The house has 11 bedrooms.
The community is a self governing Co-op. The Co-op makes decisions cooperatively for how the house will function, so some things will change as we decide how to make the house work best for the diverse people living here. The starting intentions include:
• Communication with compassion.
• Shared space and life.
• Shared meals.
• Shared staple foods which are Organic.
• Group decision making.
• Safe, inclusive space: queer and trans friendly, anti-racist, non-violent, and feminist.
• The purchase of the house by the co-op in about five years.
• The expansion of the co-op, possibly to include other housing types (like separate apartments).
• Weekly meetings.
• We expect there will be a buy-in fee when the co-op becomes formal. We expect it might be between $500 and $1000 and will be refundable when moving out of the house.
• Quiet hours are from 10:00pm to 8:00am.
We are looking for community members who:
• Want to live in a community not just have a place to sleep and eat.
• Want to live in a beautiful, clean, and organized house and are willing to help make and keep it that way.
• Are curious, compassionate, flexible, and open to living with others who will undoubtedly have different ideas about many things.
• Are interested in pioneering a new co-op. There will be work involved to get there.
• Are responsible and communicative.
• Embrace enthusiastically that living in community requires introspection and personal growth.
• Are not joining as a way to run away from something.
The house belongs to one of the members. The intention is that the co-op will buy the house in about five years at which point the current owner hopes to buy another building nearby to enlarge the community. We would like to include others in our community in the form of dinners that include our neighbors and friends. We have a community potluck every other month and some neighbors garden with us.
To share community, meals, living space, food, and garden. To attend to personal and interpersonal growth.
We have an application form. The community reads applications, discusses prospective members, talks to them, meets them, does background checks, and decides as a group. We give 3-6 month leases to begin. At the end of their first year, the community together will decide whether to have the prospective member join permanently.
We currently have an unoccupied room with a bed. Please call or email if you would like to visit.
The whole membership decides collectively.
Decisions proceed unless someone has a reasoned objection.
Organized in circles or domains with distributed authority.
We are a Co-op, with house meetings and group decision-making. We are currently discussing the idea of Sociocracy as a governing method.
Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.
Regular fees: $1030
Labor: Yes (4 hrs/week)
Members with pre-existing debt: allowed
We require members be capable of paying their deposit, rent, utilities, and shared food costs. We verify income as part of the application process.
Common House, Garden(s), Workshop, Large Scale Kitchen, Internet
Within city limits with access to urban amenities and infrastructure.
Shared living spaces with private bedrooms/bathrooms and communal
kitchens, dining, and social areas.
Connecting people and communities through an intentional online marketplace
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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