Cohousing in the media
“How to be not lonely? Cohousing is an answer for some people.” That’s the headline on a piece from NPR in December of 2024, which talks about a young couple with children and how much they have come to depend on the help of their fellow residents at Daybreak Cohousing in Portland, Oregon for childcare in emergencies.
In June of 2024, CBC.ca did a feature on different forms of “aging in place,” including cohousing. “In the next 6 years, almost a quarter of Canadians will be senior citizens,” the article says, and so “instead of retirement homes, some are choosing to age in place.”
In 2015, documentary producer Karin Wells went to Vancouver Island to meet a group of seniors on the verge of moving into a new development called Harbourside Cohousing in Sooke, B.C. Three years later, she went back to Harbourside to check up on the residents.
Building Community With Cohousing
Film makers Dany Gagnon and Regan Payne interview cohousing residents from British Columbia communites WindSong Cohousing, Cranberry Commons, and Roberts Creek Cohousing.
Cooperative living arrangements have existed across a number of cultures for centuries. But the concept took a new form in Denmark in the early 1970s.
New York Times: Modern Housing With Village Virtues
It's getting harder for American working families to get ahead. They're struggling with an increasing number of challenges, but what if there was a potential salve to all of these struggles? One that was introduced to Americans 25 years ago, but hasn’t yet gone to scale?
TED Talk: How cohousing can make us happier (and live longer)
Loneliness doesn't always stem from being alone. For architect Grace Kim, loneliness is a function of how socially connected we feel to the people around us - and it's often the result of the homes we live in.