Recommended reading
The Cohousing Handbook: Building a Place for Community
This is a great step-by-step guide to the whole process, from starting a group to moving in.
Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities
This book is about intentional communities of all kinds, rather than Cohousing specifically. It contains many anecdotes - and cautionary tales - about communities in North America.
Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities
Described on Amazon as The cohousing "bible" by the US originators of the concept, this is our top recommendation if you want to learn more about cohousing, its history, and its origins in North America.
The Senior Cohousing Handbook - 2nd Edition: A Community Approach to Independent Living
Although Kawartha Commons isn’t a seniors-only Cohousing project, this book is well worth a read. It explores the idea of aging in place, both in North America and in Denmark, where Cohousing originated.
