Cohousing is a new approach to one of humanity's oldest concerns - how to create a meaningful and vibrant community.

Cohousing adapts the best parts of traditional village life - cooperation, shard public spaces, intergenerational connections between neighbors - and invigorates those ancient ideas with progressive values like diversity, environmental sustainability, equality and democratic decision making.

Unlike a four-story walk-up or a sprawling subdivision, community is built into the very fabric of the neighborhood. Although each household has their own home, and their own kitchen, there are many common spaces where people connect - pedestrian streets, courtyards, and a common house with amenities like a large dining hall, sitting areas, playrooms, rehearsal spaces or a community library.  Most importantly, the residents participate in designing the common house and the neighborhood. So you really feel at home... because you helped to create it!

Prairie Onion Cohousing is the latest addition to more than a hundred cohousing communities across North America.  To find out more about cohousing, visit:

www.chicagocohousing.net

www.cohousing.org

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Prairie Onion Cohousing

• Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves. Kathryn McCamant, Charles Durrett, and Ellen Hertzman. Ten Speed Press, 1988 and 1994.
• The Cohousing Handbook: Building a Place for Community. Chris ScottHanson and Kelly ScottHanson. Consortium, 2004.