Houston Sierra Club Outings

Note: This will be an IN-PERSON event! Thursday, August 13, 2026
Location: United Way of Greater Houston; 50 Waugh Drive (parking garage is off of Feagan St).
Doors open at 7:00 pm for social time, meet & greet. Program presentation begins at 7:30 pm.
Everyone is welcome.

Free parking in the garage. Enter the garage from Feagan St.
Please do not park in any of the reserved spots in the garage and do not park in the lot across the street. There are four levels in the UW parking garage. Enter from the first level through the glass doors to the main entrance and reception area.

There is Metro bus access via the #40 bus off Waugh Dr/ South Heights Blvd. or the #85 bus on Washington Ave.

The Houston Sierra Club will host a presentation by Steve Stelzer about Living in Houston’s first co-housing community.

Texas has (its first) Cohousing community in the East End of Houston! The term Cohousing refers to a neighborhood designed for strong community relationships and a sense of belonging. We live in 33 private condominium homes in a four story building complex but share our common spaces as well as the responsibility of working together to care for them and for our neighbors. Our homes are all connected by a series of walkways that allow you to "run into" your neighbors as your go about your day. Additionally, we have shared community gardens, outdoor spaces to visit with neighbors, and a
Common House - the heart of the community. Our stormwater detention is both underground and in a delightful swale on the street side of the residential buildings, featuring over 1200 native plants installed by the community. We also invested in geothermal/ground source heat pump technology.

End Commons is our name and we value our diverse experiences, talents, ages, and perspectives. We all have busy and full lives outside of our cohousing life, thus our community is designed both for privacy and easy community connections.

By the time of this Sierra Club meeting, speaker Steve Stelzer will share what it’s like to live in a Cohousing community. He will have just moved in at the end of July joining three other households, and maybe a few more, making this more of a pioneering story of how this group organized and got the project built, but with some early living experiences, such as community composting, while preparing for full occupancy perhaps by year’s end.
www.cohousinghouston.com