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03/03/2022

3br/2ba home for sale at Westwood! Dig the details.

02/18/2020

**UPDATE** This room is no longer available.
One of our residents has a room for rent starting March 16, 2020. If you're interested in joining us, check it out.

ROOM FOR RENT, available March 16, in a 3-bedroom Westwood home. Scroll down for description and contact information. Furnished room on main level, includes closet, double bed, shelves, small desk …

08/27/2019

We're back online at westwoodcohousing.com. Visit our newly redesigned website!

Westwood Cohousing is a community of 24 units in vibrant, artsy West Asheville, North Carolina.

05/13/2019

In case you're trying to get to our website, it's down right now and may be down a couple days. Please bear with us. In the meantime, if you're hoping for a tour, you can email contactwestwood at gmail dot com and put the word "tour" in the subject line. We currently have no units for sale or rent.

04/23/2019

Join us this Saturday!

04/09/2019

We're excited to welcome the Resonant Rogues for a house concert this Sunday at 6pm. Come on out! $10 suggested donation for the band.

Learn More the Resonant Rogues at: https://theresonantrogues.com Produced by Independent Arts and Music Asheville More episodes of Echo Sessions at www.iamav...

03/15/2019

Mark your calendar for April 27: National Cohousing Day! We'll be having an open house. Hours TBD.

11/02/2018

Our little trick-or-treat group made the Vermont Ave page. Happy (belated) Halloween!

09/24/2018

There's a great 3BR/2BA home for sale here. Looks right out on the playground, so it's great for families or anyone looking for that kind of space. Check it out. (Zillow placed our common house as the first image, so click through to see the actual unit.)

For sale: $295,000. A multi-generational cohousing community located in the heart of West Asheville. Be a part of this close-knit neighborhood designed to encourage social contact as well as personal space. This private unit has all features of a conventional home and full use of the 4+ acres includ...

07/01/2018

Come on over!

Address

43 Vermont Court
Asheville, NC
28806

Telephone

+18282546099

Website

http://westwoodcohousing.com/

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About Westwood

Westwood Cohousing is a multi-generational, eco-conscious cohousing community of 24 units located in vibrant, artsy West Asheville, North Carolina. Our membership includes doctors and other healthcare professionals, real estate workers, writers, craftspeople, teachers, children from preschool to college age, retirees into their 90s, and several dogs and cats.

Each unit is owned individually and the land is owned communally. All owners are members of the Westwood Cohousing Association (WCHA) and work to make decisions together using a process that achieves consent through Sociocracy. Further, we all participate in the community through business meetings, community meals, work parties, social events, and other impromptu gatherings, always valuing mindfulness and inter-generational connection.

Learn more about Westwood Cohousing by scheduling a tour today.

HISTORY In 1992, a group formed around the notion of building a cohousing community in West Asheville. They began to meet weekly to work on site plans and address the priorities for the buildings. The architects completed the basic floor plans in 1995. Then, as 1996 got underway, details on basic dwelling units were ready and the owners reserved their sites.

Westwood now had 20 full members and two associate members (future renters). That fall, the development company selected a general contractor, known coincidentally as Westwood Enterprises (no relation). After months of frustrating negotiations with local banks to obtain a construction loan, the development company formed a private construction loan pool, with fundraising help and loans from some association members.

By the early spring of 1997, enough money had been raised to begin building. An interim Board of Directors was selected and hard physical work began on the site (sweat equity work), including building a perimeter fence and transplanting special foliage. The official groundbreaking ceremony was in May 1997 and the Westwood Cohousing Homeowners Association was incorporated. Some members moved in that winter.

The builder finished dwelling blocks in phases and built the common house during one of the wettest, muddiest winters on record.

By August 1998 all units were completed and occupied. In the fall of 1998 a new board of directors was elected. Since then, Westwood members have completed various sweat equity projects and maintained the common elements, doing most of the work ourselves. We are always learning better how to govern ourselves and grow as a community.