An excellent, comprehensive, current article on cohousing

https://urbanland.uli.org/public/building-community-with-cohousing/

(it’s incomprehensible that the option of living in a cohousing community is not yet available to the twenty million people who live in the NYC-NJ-Philadelphia metropolitan area)

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From the article: “In Europe, in recognition of the social, economic, and environmental benefits of cohousing, governments have encouraged its development. Denmark is the global leader, with an estimated 7 percent of the population living in cooperative or cohousing communities.”

Someone in our movement will at some point become the burning soul who focuses on coordinating initiatives to get cohousing-friendly legislation passed … at all levels — local, state, and federal.

The fostering of cohousing by governmental agencies wouldn’t be a panacea, but it sure would help.

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From the article: “For cohousing to reach more people, Becker-Hafnor says that more developers will need to get into the cohousing business.”

. . . not simply to help groups of prospective residents who have started bonding and planning (the common scenario), but just as often to take the initiating lead.

We need movement- and social-change-oriented professionals.