Coastside Cohousing

More Tales from Cohousing! 💜 Join us at our upcoming info session on June 23 to learn more about our project and community - https://www.coastsidecohousing.com/events

Memory from one of our Coastside member who previously lived in cohousing.
""When we moved into our new cohousing community, we knew no one. We moved across the country and had been excited to live with people who wanted to know their neighbors. The second day after moving in, a knock came on my door and a nine year old girl walked in and started talking to me. She proceeded to go into the master bedroom (on the first floor) and jump on the bed while talking to me. I asked her name, she shared and said 'welcome to the community'. I had just put my two year old down for a nap and the girl had just gotten home from school. It was heartwarming to see her confidence both to knock on our door and walk in to welcome me, kid style. The rest of the community was stopping by to offer meals for dinner, etc. but this introduction was so special and so comforting to me"

Coastside Cohousing, Intentional, Sustainable, developing community in Santa Cruz County, California — Coastside Cohousing Developing cohousing community, Coastside Cohousing in Santa Cruz, California. Discover our intentional community with private homes, shared spaces, sustainable design, and resident-led living. Join info sessions and site tours, and explore membership pathways toward building a sustainable neighborh

Tales from Cohousing! 💙 We have several members who have previously lived in and raised families in cohousing, on both the East and West Coasts. Here's a personal vignette from one:

"Common meals were offered two to four times a week in our community. If you were on the team cooking, you signed up and either prepared the meal as sous chef or master chef, shopped or cleaned up afterwards. As a parent, I loved that our daughter had a fantastic meal and I could be one of the people involved preparing the meal, or on other occasions, sitting and talking to our friends, watching our older daughter play and learn to help clean up. When several of your meals are relaxing and all you have to do is participate once a month, you realize how much time is involved in your daily meal preparation. I much prefer to enjoy eating and helping once a month! Come learn more about Coastside Cohousing at our virtual info sessions on June 11 or June 23. Register here!

Coastside Cohousing, Intentional, Sustainable, developing community in Santa Cruz County, California — Coastside Cohousing Developing cohousing community, Coastside Cohousing in Santa Cruz, California. Discover our intentional community with private homes, shared spaces, sustainable design, and resident-led living. Join info sessions and site tours, and explore membership pathways toward building a sustainable neighborh

We continue to work with our architects on the Common House and Individual Home designs. Recently, Mountain View Cohousing graciously hosted some of our members and Explorers for a 2nd time - to tour their community, gather design ideas and answer questions. It's wonderful to see cohousing communities helping each other in this way, and we hope one day to do the same for another group! Come to one of our June virtual info sessions to learn more - https://www.coastsidecohousing.com/events

Cohousing communities like Coastside Cohousing align with many of these Blue Zone principles. Come check out Coastside at www.coastsidecohousing.com

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Cohousing is....it's not too late to register for our virtual info session Tues, May 19th, 7 pm PST and learn more about our forming community in Santa Cruz County, CA. Sign up at www.coastsidecohousing.com/events

Our latest social, a 'progressive potluck' at two member homes. At the first, we learned about hydroponic gardening, reviewed and discussed private home designs, and enjoyed a healthy potluck lunch. We then traveled a couple of miles down the road to a beautiful lemon-themed dessert buffet. If you'd like to learn more about our group and project, join us Tuesday, May 19 @ 7 pm PST for a virtual info session (sign up on our website, www.coastsidecohousing.com/events)

Coastside Cohousing members and a few Explorers enjoyed learning about hydroponics at our latest social last Saturday. We have a very talented and diverse group and enjoy learning new things from each other. Interested in learning more about our cohousing project and members? Join us May 14 or 19 for a virtual info session. Register there. https://www.coastsidecohousing.com/events

The benefits of downshifting - I'd add one more "explore living in cohousing". Join us at one of our May virtual info sessions - sign up at www.coastsidecohousing.com/events.

Powerful insights into the impact of loneliness and social isolation on health and mortality at Stanford's Healthy Aging 2026 Conference. Steve Crane from Stanford's Lifestyle Medicine shared some disturbing stats about about the increased risk of heart disease, dementia, depression and premature mortality -- most astonishing, a 77% increased risk of depression due to loneliness and isolation. Cohousing communities like Coastside Cohousing are an antidote! Come learn about our forming community in Santa Cruz County at our May 14 and 19 virtual info sessions. Register here:

Coastside Cohousing, Intentional, Sustainable, developing community in Santa Cruz County, California — Coastside Cohousing Developing cohousing community, Coastside Cohousing in Santa Cruz, California. Discover our intentional community with private homes, shared spaces, sustainable design, and resident-led living. Join info sessions and site tours, and explore membership pathways toward building a sustainable neighborh

"It is not, in fact, a hippie commune" is something that often comes up in talking with people new to the concept of cohousing. Come explore Coastside Cohousing!

Ten Lessons in Neighborliness From a Cohousing Community Here's what Courtney E. Martin has learned from 10 years of living in an intentional community in Oakland, California.