I love telling people I meet that I live in a hippie commune. This is a lie. Or really it’s a joke, designed to prompt questions that I’m eager to answer. I actually live in a cohousing community, and ...

The concept of cohousing invariably conjures up images of hippie communes from a bygone era. While some of the core values between the two have some similarities, today's cohousing environments are ...

For generations, aging alone was often associated with isolation, loneliness, and eventually moving into a nursing home. But ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Communal living has moved beyond the college dorm and spread into housing communities nationwide. A select handful of these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Senior cohousing communities offer a joyful and fulfilling experience of ageing.Photograph: Leland Bobbe/Getty Images (Photograph: ...

Explore the topic of aging in America through in-depth stories, data and interactive content at governing.com/generations. Several years ago, Steve Pretl of Potomac ...

As a kid growing up in the busy beehive of a large apartment complex on the north side of Chicago during the '50s, Joan Lichterman got used to having a lot of people in her life: She and her friends ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link When construction finished on a new apartment building on our block, one of my neighbor's kids asked when we were going to meet the people who had ...

The meltdown started with a small thing — a bag of suckers. Rachel Damgen's four-year-old son wanted one. She said no. It was a few years ago, in the middle of the pandemic, when it was not unusual ...

I bought a four-unit apartment building with another single mom to help us share costs. It's brought us optimism, community, and cost savings. While cohousing is great, it hasn't solved a lot of the ...

Children play in the common area at Southside Co-Housing Community on Oct. 13, 2013, in Sacramento. Randy Pench Sacramento Bee file In an era in which most people know – at most – just a few of their ...