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Name: Prudence Crandall House:2d potluck/discussion/housemate openings (N. Oakland)
Start: 2013-07-13T02:00:00Z

Prudence Crandall House:2d potluck/discussion/housemate openings (N. Oakland)

Jul 12, 2013 · 7:00 PM
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Good housemates sought to join Prudence Crandall House, a long-established 11-room single-family craftsman-style cooperative house, currently owned by EBCOHO Supporting Member Spring Friedlander in North Oakland, near Telegraph Avenue, right by the Berkeley border, with several openings. Come to a potluck & discussion this Friday evening (RSVP here on this page) to learn more; you can read comments on the prior Sunday evening gathering here.

(EBCOHO organizers' note: this is not cohousing, although the founder has visions of retrofit ecovillage creation in the larger neighborhood. This is what we are coming to call cohouseholding (sharing a single home and kitchen and facilities), which requires a greater degree of care and attention to the specific people involved. Since the property owner is a member, regardless of the vision/intention/concept/history with prior members, you have to go in to any such arrangement with eyes wide open and looking at the structural conflict and personal dynamics, and ask yourself what you're willing to live with. The description is provided by the owner, and you have to make your own assessment of whether it will meet your personal needs -- Raines)

Two openings by July 22nd, 2 more rooms around the beginning of September from $750 - $375 / month+ utilities in our child-friendly, multi-racial, queer and poly positive, inter-generational omnivore collective home.

Prudence Crandall House is currently a multi-generational, owner-occupied household in a very pedestrian/bicycle friendly neighborhood. Our house enjoys great sunlight in all directions. It has a sizable back yard with a vegetable garden, fruit trees, berry bushes, a bicycle storage shed and cloths line. We share a deeply organized kitchen and pantry, a spacious dining room, full bathrooms on the main floor and upstairs, a washer dryer and a comfy living room.

As a household, we share 2 dinners per week, chores, shopping for shared groceries, a monthly work party, and regular house meetings.

Ideally, you will be socially and emotionally aware with great communication skills, ecologically centered, progressive and politically active, queer positive, arts and/or activist oriented. No cats or dogs due to allergies, but we do have a guinea pig.

We live in a 100 year old craftsman house in excellent condition with lots of "Green" features in Oakland, near Telegraph and Ashby Ave., .7 mile from both the Ashby and Rockridge BART stations, one mile from UC Berkeley, in the San Francisco Bay Area, California USA.

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Raines C.

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0 · July 15, 2013
A former member

Would love to bring something everyone can enjoy. Are there any food allergies I should be aware of?

0 · July 8, 2013
- Raines C.
  
  Good question, Felicia. In general, I find that bringing a label with ingredients makes it easier for people with particular allergies/concerns to self-select dishes that meet their needs. With such a large group as this, with more guests than resident hosts, in my experience not every dish will work for everybody, but everybody will have at least something that works for them.
  
  1 · July 8, 2013

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East Bay Cohousing is for people interested in creating intentional communities.

We are a big tent for all manner of self-governing resident managed housing communities, such as housing cooperatives & collective houses, co-housing neighborhoods & eco-villages, co-living leaseholds and income sharing collectives, as well as community land trusts, cooperative loan funds. Members come from every county in the Bay Area, and other parts of the US and the world.

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Orientations for newcomers are every 4-6 weeks - this is where you can start meeting likeminded people, share ideas and resources. If you are a do-it-yourselfer, this is a good way to get a lot of useful resources.

Joining EBCOHO also makes you part of Cohousing California. At http://www.CalCoho.org you will find other regional networks, a combined calendar of events, links to forming and existing communities we know, and links to our partners, networks we belong to, and groups we consider allies around the world.

This work is self-funded by the organizers, at a scope well beyond a typical volunteer.

EBCOHO is not a quick fix to cheap housing, although members and the hosts do list openings in established intentional communities, both rental and ownership.

Thousands of Bay Area residents already live in safe and stable housing where they share expenses, decision-making, and ownership. Across the US and the world, millions of people are living more sustainably, more democratically, more cooperatively - usually by sharing ownership of land and making agreements to step out of the booms and busts of real estate markets.

If you want to know your neighbors well, have a better life by sharing more, and live more peacefully and lightly on the planet then please join us!

We are actively involved in this movement of movements, and count many friends and allies who are pioneers in cooperative culture, global ecovillages, urban homesteaders, slow money, social entrepreneurs, affordable housing developers, green builders, and creative visionaries. We support all manner of progress including user-friendly and collaborative technologies, economies, and governments.

Use the SUGGEST AN EVENT feature if you'd like to see a particular topic addressed, or if you've got something you are hosting. Events we personally host (Cohousing Coaches Raines & Betsy, that is), always have time for members to share their personal visions, skills and experiences.

Supporting Members and Coaching Clients help with overall expenses of this project -- We thank you with a free orientation, and discounts to future events hosted by us and some of our sponsors/partners.

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EBCOHO and Cohousing California are projects of Raines Cohen and Betsy Morris, as is Planning for Sustainable Communities, an community planning, development, and research consultancy. Each of us has lived in multiple cooperative living situations in the Bay Area before moving in together to Berkeley Cohousing, where we have been members since 2003. Raines has been deeply involved in technology user groups, tech for the social good, journalism and database consulting; Betsy has a PhD, and a Masters and 20 years experience in community development and planning, with public and nonprofit agencies. Both of us love organizing events that share the feeling of good spirit and open up doors for people to find their dreams.

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