About us
Join others organizing to create CoHousing opportunities in Silicon Valley, for raising kids, being more social, or for retirement. The Bay Area has a rich cohousing history, with a number of communities in the East Bay, Davis, etc. Sadly, the peninsula area has not attracted as much interest, but there are a number of communal homes and interested people who may be able to serve as the seed to get more communities started! There are a lot of possibilities for retrofit cohousing here, where a group buys an apartment complex and then adds common space. And with this broader area having so many communities, there is plenty of expertise to draw on.
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$50.00
Bioregional Regeneration Bay Delta unConference Spring '26 (Oakland, in-person)
Oakstop, 2323 Broadway, Oakland, CA, US1 attendee from 7 groupsJoin East Bay Cohousing at a community-crafted gathering to explore community, resilience, restoration, and regeneration both in the San Francisco Bay & Delta and beyond.
These are days of darkness & possibility, uncertainty & opportunity. We are calling doers and dreamers from all walks of life to join together and create the story of a thriving future for all life, where we live: the Bay Delta Bioregion, and its many beautiful watersheds and communities.
The Question: How do we better collaborate within and across communities and watersheds to co-create a thriving future for all life?
In true unconference fashion, the rest is up to you!
Participants will create the agenda. You can propose your own topic and there will be many stimulating sessions to join.
Sessions will cover a wide range of topics, such as local food systems, bioregionalism, land stewardship, social justice, solidarity economy, ecological restoration, regenerative practices, Indigenous leadership, storytelling, solarpunk, the "collapse", and cooperation.
Formats will run the gamut from inspiring conversations to somatic exercises to “roll up your sleeves” problem-solving.
This event is for everyone whether you’re professionally involved, active as a volunteer and community member, or curious about how you can contribute.Don't miss this chance to experience a transformative and joyful day of networking, connecting, sharing, and action-making. We hope this will be the first of many gatherings that grow the movement to re-imagine a world that works for all life. Together, we will create new pathways for regeneration and resilience in the Bay and beyond.
While this event is not centered on cohousing, many Cohousing California (and our regional sub-network, East Bay Cohousing) allies are involved and we believe that the topics covered are relevant for anyone creating or living in sustainable community in the East Bay or beyond. We will be participating and offering to host discussions that make these links clearer, and helping people find paths to get the knowledge, experience and connections needed to bring about more communities with more depth in these areas.
Presented in partnership with:
- east bay permaculture guild
- Global Regeneration CoLab
- The Bay Delta Trust
- LIFT Economy
- East Bay Cohousing
- Greenermind Summit
- CrowdDoing
- NatureCounter
- California Doughnut Economics Coalition
- Cultivating Self
- Cosmic Labyrinth
- Terran Collective
- Hylo
Coordinated by Kaliya Young’s unconference facilitation team featuring longtime EBCOHO partner and supporter Ajay Tallam.
Learn more and register with a discount code via East Bay Cohousing's website.
- 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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