Intentional Communities / Housing Cooperatives

Terminology

• co-op/cooperative: autonomous or semi-autonomous community of people living together in a communal space with shared responsibilities
• coliving: corporate-owned for-profit space with cleaning staff and communal amenities
• commune: autonomous community that is mostly self-sufficient with high degree of communal responsibility
• cohousing: sort of a catch-all that includes more casual attempts to form community in regular apartments

Directories

• Photo survey of coliving houses
• Haight St Commons Housing Roundup (July 2024)
• Supernuclear: Directory of Coliving Directories
• Foundation for Intentional Community Directory

Boston/Cambridge

• Cambridge Cooperative Club
• Haley House [IC listing]
• Beacon Hill Friends House IC listing]
  • Affiliation: Quaker
• Hexapod [IC listing]
• Cambridge Zen Center [IC listing]
  • Affiliation: Kwan Um School of Zen
• Pika
  • Affiliation: MIT
  • undergraduates only
• ET
  • Affiliation: MIT
  • undergraduates only

New York City

• Beit Ephraim Food Co-op (Bayit)
  • Affiliation: Columbia
  • Jewish-identifying Columbia students only
• Moishe House Park Slope
  • Affiliation: Jewish
• Fractal

San Francisco Bay Area

• Haight Street Commons
• Planetarium (Oakland)
• Gearkult (Oakland)
• The Embassy
• Paper Moon
• Template
• The Center
• Rabbithole
• Metavilla
• Ithaka

Wisconsin

• Madison Community Cooperative
  • International Cooperative

Michigan

• Inter-Cooperative Council at Ann Arbor