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🌿 Gratitude Village is creating a mixed-income, fully accessible, Zero Energy cohousing community in Brighton, CO focused on connection, sustainability, belonging, and aging in place.

09/29/2026

I’m excited to be part of the Community-Rooted Housing Summit in Denver this October!

This gathering brings together people who are rethinking how we create housing and community, from cohousing and community-led development to affordability, sustainability, connection, and belonging. These are conversations that are very close to the work we’re doing at Gratitude Village Colorado, and I’m looking forward to learning from others doing this work around the country and sharing some of what we’re learning here in Colorado.

The Summit is October 23–24, with community tours happening October 21–25. If you’ve been curious about cohousing, community-rooted development, or simply how we might create better ways of living together, I’d love to have you join us.

And I have a little something for my network: use code CommunityRooted10 when you register for 10% off.

Who else is coming? I’d love to see some familiar faces there!

National Cohousing Alliance

09/28/2026

What does it look like to build a cohousing community before the homes are built?

For , it looks like eight Founding Member households spending an entire weekend imagining the spaces where we'll share meals, welcome guests, raise children, make things, celebrate, and grow older together.

On September 19–20, Gratitude Village members gathered at Nyland Cohousing near Boulder, Colorado, for a Common House Design Workshop facilitated by Studio CoHab.

They talked about kitchens and guest rooms, children's play spaces and quiet corners, outdoor terraces and gathering places. More importantly, they talked about how they want to live together and how thoughtful design can make that possible.

With a 7.81-acre Brighton property now purchased, GV is taking steady steps toward creating an inclusive, sustainable, accessible, mixed-income cohousing community.

They aren't home yet, but they're already becoming neighbors.

Learn more: gratitudevillageco.com

09/28/2026

So excited to be part of the National Cohousing Alliance and we are looking forward to participating in the Oct 23-24 Community-Rooted Housing Summit here in Denver!

09/13/2026

People with enough financial resources generally have choices about housing.

They can prioritize a walkable neighborhood, energy efficiency, accessibility, good schools, proximity to family, or a place where they actually know their neighbors.

As financial resources become more limited, those choices begin to disappear. The question shifts from “Where would I like to live?” to “What can I qualify for?”

That distinction has changed the way I think about housing equity.
The inequity isn't only that some people have less housing. It's that some people have far less power to choose the kind of life their housing makes possible.

In my newest Substack, I share how my own search for a more connected way to live eventually led me to a much bigger question: Who gets to have choices?

Read the full post: Link in the first comment.

09/11/2026

When I first started thinking seriously about cohousing, I wasn't trying to solve the housing crisis. I was looking for a more connected way to live.

Then I realized I couldn't afford most of the cohousing communities I was finding in Colorado. I looked at my daughter and wondered how she was supposed to afford her first home doing meaningful work that doesn't come with a six-figure salary.

Then came more questions.

Could we build homes that cost less to live in because they were energy efficient? Could I age in place? Could our friends and colleagues with disabilities fully participate? Could my Peruvian American daughter see people who looked like her in the community we were creating?

Somewhere along the way, I realized these weren't separate questions. They were all connected to something bigger: Who gets to have meaningful choices about how and where they live?

That's the journey I explore in my newest Notes from the Common House.

Read "Who Gets to Have Choices?" Link in the first comment.

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