About us
Imagine coming home to a community: a safe place for kids to play; a shared meal, a conversation, and a friend.
This group will create a cohousing community in the San Jose area (the heart of Silicon Valley in the san francisco south bay) with your help.
We are part of the Cohousing California network of communities. Learn more at:
http://www.CalCoho.org/
Upcoming events
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- Network event
East Bay Cohousing Crawl (in-person) - National Cohousing Month
Several Cohousing Communities in Oakland, Richmond, Pleasant Hill and Berkeley (placeholder, don't use map), 1 Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA, US53 attendees from 5 groupsCome see what it looks like to live in cohousing neighborhoods in the East Bay on a self-guided tour, part of East Bay Housing Organization's (EBHO) Affordable Housing Month in the East Bay and National Cohousing Month.
RSVP on this page, via East Bay Cohousing's website here, or text CRAWL to +19252815643 to RSVP
Open times and locations will be posted on the East Bay Cohousing (EBCOHO) website. You will be able to add all open houses to your calendar, or click on them to add them individually.
Please only visit during the listed hours.
- Visit sustainable intentional communities in the Berkeley-Oakland-Pleasant Hill area.
- See how they blend privacy and community, with individual homes plus a Common House.
- Get a taste of what it's like to dine together, with regular common meals.
- Learn about each community's unique design, how it came together, and the innovative approaches to affordability, diversity, inclusion, and sustainability each embodies.
- Find out how to learn about current and future openings in these communities and new ones in formation in the area and beyond.
Led by East Bay Cohousing, the regional umbrella network for cooperative community living. .
Communities on the crawl will be announced
You can pick and choose throughout the day and find your own way by carpool/rideshare, BART, and/or bike (at your own risk).
BYO transportation.
- Network event$25.00
Berkeley Cohousing (un)Common Meal - cook & dine in community
Berkeley Cohousing Common House, 2220 Sacramento St. #G, Berkeley, CA, US2 attendees from 6 groupsJoin Betsy Morris and Raines Cohen, Cohousing Coaches and EBCOHO organizers, with area community seekers and residents of an East Bay Cohousing neighborhood, to together prepare a community meal/BBQ at Berkeley Cohousing, now celebrating over three decades as a community, as part of National Cohousing Month and East Bay Housing Organization's (EBHO) Affordable Housing Month.
At an (un)Common Meal, we take over a cohousing Common House kitchen on an "off" night and prepare our own Common Meal together; some members of the community may join us to eat it. The shopping will already be done, but we'll get to cook and clean and learn together, discovering the joys and challenges of feeding a group of diverse humans with unique needs, and cleaning up afterwards.
We charge dinner guests to cover the cost of ingredients, but we are delighted to be able to offer this event FREE to recipients of SNAP/EBT food assistance, since we know this is a challenging time and we want to support you through it -- that's what community is all about.
You can pay in advance and confirm your spot via the East Bay Cohousing website.Schedule for the evening:
5-5:30 PM Cooks arrive and start prepping dinner, under the guidance of a community member (we take care of the meal planning & shopping in advance)
6 PM Cleaners arrive and get to visit a home or two.
6:30 PM Break to eat and share about our community living and searching experience
7:00 PM Cleaners start cleaning, cooks continue discussion
(cleaners can rejoin when they're done)8-8:30 PM Wrap-up and go home.
Note: Everybody is either a cook or a cleaner. If you arrive too late to cook, you're a cleaner. Don't worry if you haven't cooked for a group before, we'll have plenty of experienced hands on hand, and the right tools in the Common House kitchen to make it fun and easy.
We'll take turns, with one group cooking while another socializes, take time to eat together, and then the cooks get to relax while the cleaners cleans up.
Advance registration and payment required, so we can shop and prepare. We always use local organic ingredients to the extent available, and offer alternatives to accommodate a wide variety of dietary needs.
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