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Bankrate.com, a mortgage info site, published a very extensive article about cohousing:

Cohousing creates communities by design

Believing that no barriers are needed between good neighbors, in 1986, a pair of homeowners on N Street in Davis, Calif., tore down the fence separating their tract homes to create a common backyard.

Within two years, the shared yard encompassed four properties and Kevin Wolf and his neighbors "were doing potlucks together."

N Street Cohousing is featured prominently as are Manzanita Village, and Bartimaeus Cohousing.

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The Southwest Florida Herald Tribune published an article on Elder Cohousing:

A retirement community with a communal touch.

The cohousing community is still in the forming stages but hopes to be in Englewood, FL. They are getting help from the Elder Cohousing Network and Paiss and Associates.

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Our Town: Sick of single-family solitude? Craving an antidote to urban isolation? The new era of tribal living has arrived.

Common Ground is published in LA, Seattle, San Fancisco, and Chicago.

This is a great overview article and mentions numerous communities throughout the country.

I love this quote:

Dave Henson has a garden he can’t afford, a restaurant-grade kitchen he can’t afford and a hot tub he can’t afford. He’s also managed to find a way to reduce the number of hours he has to be an on-duty parent — without having to pay babysitters.

That’s because Henson lives at the Sowing Circle in Occidental, CA, one of hundreds of intentional communities in the United States where singles and families are surrendering part of their much-vaunted freedom in order to live with others.

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This article appeared in a collection of small papers in Vermont (http://www.rutlandherald.com, http://www.timesargus.com). They mostly talk about 60s communes but they acknowledge that a lot of intentional communities still make Vermont their home. Quotes from Wavy Gravy and Diana Christian.

Here's a good quote on how communes affected Vermont:

But while nearly all the original Vermont communes and communards have vanished, their legacy remains in the state's green movement, farmers markets, food co-ops and alternative-energy pioneers. Arguably, much of Vermont's current character stems from its commune days.

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