I used to live in the featured built #cohousing community in Oakland (nice to see my then-neighbor Michael still at it); the other is forming just down the road in Fremont. More on regional opportunities on East Bay Cohousing www.ebcoho.org

@sky-follower-bridge.dev thanks for the great product! Note that for Private Twitter accounts (where you approve followers) it can be useful to migrate both the Followers and Following lists.

The main issue for me is that the archived label doesn't show in search results.

Thanks, I've found that issue on some other imported Twitter feeds, too bad we can't preserve the date/time stamps. Bsky needs a tag saying so assigned to all such imports. Great to see you here, anyways!

getting a 404 there. Excited to see #cohousing back on the radar after the vision you had over a decade ago. What's the latest scoop?

So have you moved in? Which #cohousing community? How's it going?

Ah, Shepherd Village. I've gotten to visit a couple times. www.shepherdvillage.net

You're quite right: most US #cohousing are legally condominiums. But with all homeowners on the board and operating by consensus, we aren't suing each other, instead taking time to listen and together find win-win solutions to get our needs met. Shared green values lead to solar economies of scale.

99% of people living in #cohousing neighborhoods own their own homes, usually legally condominiums. Except we're all on the board and run it by consensus, worrying less about enforcing conformity and preserving property values and more about using the structure to take care of each other.

One of the early #cohousing movement bumper stickers was "Re-creating an old-fashioned neighborhood." In many ways this isn't new at all, just going back to what we've lost along the way in the hyper-focus on individual/nuclear family/wealth accumulation/"flipping" etc.

My home community was great for COVID: we stopped indoor common meals for a while, separated into social "pods," provided "defense in depth" by taking care of shopping for vulnerable seniors, and eventually set up high-quality ventilation. To this day we've had no spread between households.

Nope, in #cohousing we all have our own separate privately-owned homes (typically condos, legally), our own jobs ("no community-run business" is in the definition), and in the US the typical coho user is middle-class, hyper-civic, over-educated, research says. We love communes, but this ain't that.

Link-y goodness: www.daybreakcohousing.org

There's something to be said for that, but the stereotype "a bunch of like-minded people" can be misleading and even harmful. Diversity gives us resilience, capacity, and new ways 2 learn from and inspire each other as we solve the problems of daily life together. Together, we build common language.

Believe it or not, studies have found that we have a majority of #introverts living in #cohousing! As one of them, having community easily accessible and visible makes it easy to participate when I choose to do so, but I can always come home and close my door and do my own thing to recharge.

but did your dorm have separate homes with their own kitchens? Individual homeownership? Residents leading and managing the process of creating and running them?

Well, we've learned from communes and, as the #cohousing pioneers in Denmark said, "maybe we can have a little more privacy as we raise a family," find that right mix of your own home PLUS common space, your own kitchen AND one in the Common House, so that community is available but always a choice.