LiveWork Denver

TUESDAY GIVEAWAY We are so excited to be sponsoring and collaborating on the Community Rooted Housing Conference taking place in Denver next month! The program will be truly inspiring — ideal for people exploring or living in community. Come learn from experts on how they made their visions a reality, what opportunities are emerging, what communities are forming, and how we can all create more opportunities for belonging. Comment or tag a friend and we’ll gift a registration to one lucky winner! Brought to you by National Cohousing Alliance

Take a peek inside Denver’s first and longest running equity cooperative! Members at Queen City Cooperative earn equity and appreciation on their rooms. The community also has three shared meals a week and an intentional community setup in one of Denver’s most walkable neighborhoods. They have a room available now - check out our link in bio for the application. 🌈🏡

Last week we celebrated the opening of the People’s Mansion - a large cooperative home in a mansion that was formerly a butler school.

Watching people transform a space where communities can gather, collaborate, and imagine a more cooperative future is a powerful reminder that change happens when people choose to build something better together. The chant says it best: “Whose house? Our house!” 🏡

At LiveWork Denver, that idea resonates deeply. We’re working to make shared ownership a real option for more people because we believe homeownership should be accessible to more people seeking stability and abundance. Turning that vision into reality takes persistence, partnership, and a belief that there’s a better way.

This Independence Day, we’re reflecting on the idea that freedom isn’t just about independence—it’s also about access, opportunity, and community. We believe collective ownership can be a pathway to greater financial freedom, stronger communities, and the chance for more people to build wealth together.

Here’s to building a future where more people have the opportunity to say, “Our house.” ✨

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For generations, q***r people have been building chosen families.

Long before “intentional community” became a buzzword, LGBTQ+ people were creating homes together out of necessity. When families rejected children for being different, they found one another. They shared housing, pooled resources, cared for each other through illness, celebrated together, and built the kind of family they had been denied.

Out of exclusion came extraordinary resilience. Out of necessity came creativity. These communities didn’t simply survive—they created entirely new ways of living, caring for one another, making art, celebrating identity, and imagining what family could look like. They became communities of resilience, creativity, and mutual aid that continue to inspire us today.

That history reminds us that community housing isn’t some new experiment. Whether we call them communes, housing cooperatives, cohousing communities, or shared homes, people have always found ways to live together when existing systems failed to care for them.

As we rethink the future of housing, it’s worth remembering that some of the most powerful models weren’t born in boardrooms or development firms. They were born from people choosing one another. They remind us that home isn’t just a place—it’s a practice of belonging. ***rhousing