Green Communities
Opportunities for better patterns of community growth, the protection of cultural, ecological, developmental, agricultural and recreational open space only occur if you plan for them. Haphazard planning results in poorly designed neighborhoods and sprawl.
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Cohousing Partners (SiGBA Member)
CoHousing Partners works with future residents, to create socially vibrant and environmentally sustainable communities. Our clients are given the opportunity to envision, plan and create their very own neighborhoods, supported by the leading professionals in the field.
CoHousing Partners is a full service, real estate development firm specializing in cohousing in California. We partner with future residents to create neighborhoods that are socially vibrant and environmentally sustainable.
Our development team is the most experienced group of cohousing professionals outside of Denmark, having created dozens of successful communities. Our firm's principals have created and refined systems that allow us to partner with future residents to produce award-winning neighborhoods
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Enterprise Foundation .Org - Green Communities Program
Green Communities is a five-year, $555 million initiative to build more than 8,500 environmentally healthy homes for low-income families. Created by Enterprise in partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council, Green Communities will transform the way America thinks about, designs, and builds affordable communities.
The initiative provides grants, financing, tax-credit equity, and technical assistance to developers who meet Green Communities Criteria for affordable housing that promotes health, conserves energy and natural resources, and provides easy access to jobs, schools, and services.
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Boulder Housing Coalition
The Boulder Housing Coalition is a 510(c)(3) non-profit Community Housing Development Organization dedicated to creating affordable, community enhancing, cooperative housing for the people of Boulder county. We currently own two permanently affordable rental coopertives that are located in central Boulder and are home to 24 residents.
Together these houses make up the first affordable cooperative housing system in Colorado. We are working to create a federation of housing cooperatives that will provide both affordable rental and homeownership opportunites.
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Cohousing in Tucson Arizona
Cohousing is an intentional, collaborative style of residential living that is characterized by private dwellings centered around extensive common facilities-including pedestrian-oriented pathways, other outdoor space, and a common house with such spaces as a large dining room and kitchen, lounges, meeting rooms, recreation facilities, library, workshops, children spaces, and guest rooms.
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Cohousing Assoc of US
Cohousing communities combine the advantages of private homes with the benefits of more sustainable living, including shared common facilities and ongoing connections with neighbors. These intentional neighborhoods, created and managed by residents, offer an innovative solution to today's environmental and social challenges.
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Elder CoHousing Network
Elders are looking for ways to enjoy the company of friends in a supportive setting providing independent housing and the benefits of community. Medical research has found significant health benefits to having strong social ties.
Elder Cohousing Neighborhoods are a new housing model which offers pro-active adults, 55 and above, the opportunity to live interdependently and "age in community" within a close-knit group of neighbors.
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EPA Green Communities - Community Assessment Program
If you have answered the question, "Where Are We Now?" you have prepared a community assessment and have a good understanding of your community's current conditions. You also have identified problem areas and possibly ranked those areas according to risk to the environment, quality of life, and economic vitality.
Answering "Where Are We Going ?" will help your community predict, based on current trends and activities, the direction you are headed. It allows community members to visualize their future if nothing is done to intervene. What can you expect if current patterns of land development, population change, natural resource consumption, and commercial and industrial activities continue? Are these trends sustainable?
And, your community will almost certainly be affected by regional or even global forces. Only by wise planning can you respond to these forces in a positive way.
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National Assoc of Housing Cooperatives (Cohousing)
The National Association of Housing Cooperatives is a nonprofit national federation of housing cooperatives, mutual housing associations, member associations, other resident-owned or controlled housing, professionals, organizations, and individuals interested in promoting the interests of cooperative housing communities. Incorporated in 1960, NAHC is the only national cooperative housing organization. Membership in NAHC provides many benefits.
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The New Rules Project
The Hometown Advantage
We've already worked with more than 100 communities to develop policies to nurture their locally-owned businesses. We are the go-to source for cities that are fighting against absentee owned, big box retail, fielding scores of questions each week from communities around the nation. Our resources can help you make your hometown character shine.
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Village Homes, Davis CA: A Model Solar Community Proves Its Worth
In 1973 renegade architect/developer Michael Corbett acquired a 70-acre site in Davis, California. His plan was to design a model community that would incorporate aggressive energy conservation with solar energy. Residential clusters of various types would be interspersed with commercial and agricultural uses, while common areas would enhance social interaction.
Village Homes was completed in 1982, and the community has become one of the most desirable in California's Central Valley.
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