Cohousing Communities Are Becoming More Popular

Abstract

Cohousing is a kind of intentional community of private residences with shared communal spaces. Each home has traditional amenities, including a private kitchen, bathroom, bedrooms and living spaces. Cohousing has been a well-known concept to countries in the European Union and the Netherlands but has also been slowly gaining popularity in the U.S. and Canada as well. In 2010, there were 165 established cohousing communities. In 2022, the number has almost doubled to nearly 300. The number has nearly doubled. There are 77 communities of cohousing in the US.  cohousing  in California alone. In 2012, the total number of Cohousing countries in U.N. was more than 300 in the United States