Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cohousing in Berkeley?

[Jeff Hobson (jhobson]

Jennii - 

Glad to hear you're interested. The urban East Bay (Berkeley/Oakland/...)
has a few existing cohousing communities and some that are in construction. 

Our group is East Bay Cohousing, a group that has been meeting for about a
year and is in the site-search stage. Unfortunately for your trip, we will
be doing a "Getting it Built" workshop with the Cohousing Company on Sun
2/27, so I won't be able to give you a tour.

We are hoping to make cohousing a reality here, but you're right - it is
expensive. Please contact us when you get closer to moving here.

Jeff Hobson
East Bay Cohousing, which is searching for sites and holding a Getting It
Built Workshop in late February 
Outreach contacts for EBCoho are: Kim Seashore <kseashore [at] igc.org> and
Autumn Buss <bamp [at] norcov.com>

At 01:44 PM 1/26/2000 -0600, Jennii Larsen wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am a cohousing hopeful.I will be visiting Berkeley, CA on Sunday, Feb.
>27, and I was wondering if any of the groups in the area would be willing
>to give me a tour.
>
>I probably won't be involved in cohousing for several years, but I'd
>wanted to personally see what it's like, so I can start think
>realistically about joining a cohousing community. I hope to live on the
>west coast once I get out of grad school (I haven't even started yet...),
>and I am especially interested in the bay area, which I know is extremely
>expensive. There have already been lots of great comments on cohousing and
>economics, but I'd appreciate anyone's thoughts on making cohousing a
>reality in (prohibitively) expensive areas.
>
>Thanks, Jennii
>
>Oh, and I've really enjoyed the list-serve, even though I don't get time
>to read it all.
>
>

Jeff Hobson
Project Manager, Transportation Choices Forum
Alameda Chapter Coordinator, Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition
phone:  510-540-7280
fax:    510-540-7229
email:  jhobson [at] igc.org
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