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The National Cohousing Alliance is a national non-profit raising awareness of the benefits of cohousing and supporting the development of cohousing communities nationwide.

10/17/2026

There’s an auction item with your name on it. 🌎

Bid for Belonging, our second annual virtual auction, opens Monday, October 19 at 9am MT. You can bid on stays in cohousing communities from Jalisco, Mexico to Northern California and British Columbia, plus professional services from cohousing experts.

Each stay is a chance to see community in action, sharing meals and everyday life with neighbors who chose to live this way.

Take a sneak peek: https://cohousing.rallyup.com/auction2026/Auction

Proceeds support the National Cohousing Alliance’s work to grow cohousing and community-rooted housing across the country.

10/16/2026

What do Wheat Ridge, Durango, and Minnesota's Twin Cities have in common? 🏡

They're all home to cohousing communities working with Coho Collab, one of our Community-Rooted Housing Summit sponsors!

Blue Columbine Cohousing in Wheat Ridge, Heartwood Cohousing near Durango, and Nörd Commons in Minnesota each bring their own vision of connected living to life, with Coho Collab helping them share their stories and welcome future neighbors.

And if you're joining us for the Summit, you'll have a chance to get a sneak peek at Blue Columbine on our Thursday cohousing tour!

Thanks to Coho Collab for supporting the Summit and helping more communities find their people!

Explore their work: www.cohocollab.com
Blue Columbine Cohousing

Join us in Denver, October 23–24: https://cohousingalliance.org/summits/denver2026/

10/15/2026

🏡 LAST CALL! The Community-Rooted Housing Summit is almost here, and there's still time to join us!

October 23–24 in Denver, we're bringing together people who are reimagining how we live, from cohousing and housing co-ops to shared ownership, affordable housing, and neighborhood connection.

✨ Friday evening: A welcome party and inspiring conversation on the radical roots of living together w/

✨ Saturday: A full day of workshops, panels, and connections exploring housing innovation, affordability, belonging, and building stronger communities.

🚌 PLUS! Don't miss our community tours!

October 22: Denver Cohousing Tour, visiting established and emerging communities.

October 23: Housing Reimagined: A Tour of Shared, Cooperative & Community-Owned Homes, exploring cooperative ownership, retrofit cohousing, and creative approaches to affordable housing.

Get inside real communities, meet residents, and see what's possible! Tours can be booked separately, even if you're not attending the Summit.

⏰ We're just days away, and seats are limited. Grab your tickets and join us!

🎟️ https://cohousingalliance.org/summits/denver2026/

Gratitude Village Colorado Coho Collab Studio Cohab Schemata Workshop, inc PNC The Cohousing Company

10/13/2026

Meet Coho Collab sponsor of the 2026 Community-Rooted Housing Summit!

Coho Collab works alongside forming and established cohousing communities to help future neighbors find them and feel welcome. From sharing each community’s story to supporting the journey toward membership, it brings practical marketing support and a personal approach to helping communities grow.

Learn more: www.cohocollab.com
Summit Tickets: https://cohousingalliance.org/summits/denver2026/

10/10/2026

🚌 Grab your seat! Our Denver community tours are coming up October 21–23, and seats are filling up!

Ever wanted to step inside a cohousing community, meet residents, and see how shared living really works? Here's your chance!

🏡 Thursday, Oct. 22: Denver Cohousing Tour! Visit Hearthstone Cohousing, Aria Cohousing Community and Harmony Village, with it's one-acre farm. Plus get a peek at two emerging communities: Blue Columbine Cohousing and Cedar Root.

🏘️ Friday, Oct. 23: Housing Reimagined Tour! Explore The People's Mansion, Pando, Tierra Colectiva, and Queen City Cooperative, showcasing creative approaches to shared ownership and affordable community living.

🔑 Wednesday, Oct. 21: Self-Guided Properties Tour! Explore Denver-area properties with potential for your own community-rooted housing project.

You DON'T need to attend the Summit to join a tour! Each can be booked separately.

Seats on our bus tours are limited, so don't wait until they're gone!

🎟️ Reserve your spot today:
https://cohousingalliance.org/summits/denver2026/community-tours/

10/08/2026

🔥 Living together has always been political.

Who owns the land. Who gets to belong. Who cares for whom. Who gets to decide what home, family, and community look like.

At The Radical Roots of Living Together, historian Annelise Heinz and Sarah Wells, co-founder of Queen City Cooperative, trace the history of communities that rejected conventional models and built their own through collective living, shared ownership, alternative economies, and mutual care.

These ideas aren’t new. For generations, marginalized communities have created ways of living together that offered more freedom, resilience, and belonging. And at a moment when housing is increasingly unaffordable and so many people are hungry for connection, that history feels especially relevant.

Join us Friday night at Town Hall Collaborative to kick off the Denver Community-Rooted Housing Summit with big ideas, food, drinks, and plenty of time to connect.

🔥 Come for the radical history. Stay for the party.

📍 Denver | October 23

10/07/2026

🏡 Sponsor Spotlight: Schemata Workshop!

What do Skagit Commons , Daybreak Cohousing and Capitol Hill Urban Cohousing have in common? They’re all examples of communities designed by Grace Kim, Mike Mariano, and the team at Schemata Workshop, inc, where architecture is about more than buildings. It’s about creating spaces that help people connect.

We’re thrilled to have Schemata Workshop as a sponsor of the Denver Community-Rooted Housing Summit this October!

Grace and Mike bring deep experience designing cohousing and community-centered spaces, and we’re excited to have their expertise represented in Denver as we explore what it takes to create places where community can truly take root.

Thank you, Grace, Mike, and Schemata Workshop, for supporting this work and the growing community-rooted housing movement! 💛

10/06/2026

Meet Studio Cohab, one of our Community Builder Sponsors! is an architecture firm built around cohousing and mission-driven design. They believe that inspired design is key to achieving ambitious goals. For them, every project is an opportunity to drive change by creating spaces that uplift individuals, strengthen connections, and shape a more equitable and vibrant future.

This approach led to Studio Cohab's design for Bozeman Cohousing winning the American Institute of Architect’s National Housing Award in Community-Engaged Design! Notably, the project is the first net-zero-energy cohousing design in the US, and we’re excited that cohousing is earning recognition on the national stage.
The firm’s principles are also helping shape , a forming cohousing community in Brighton, Colorado which Studio Cohab is working with! The project is targeting Net-Zero-Energy-level sustainability, as well as permanent affordability for at least one third of the homes, along with a strong commitment to inclusion and diversity. They are currently seeking new members!

Explore membership at , and get in touch with Studio Cohab at and cohabdesign.com.

10/01/2026

🏡 Come for the Summit. Stay to explore how Colorado does community.

We’ve got tours happening across multiple days surrounding the Denver Community-Rooted Housing Summit, giving you the chance to get out of the conference room and experience community-rooted housing firsthand.

Visit communities including Hearthstone Cohousing, Aria Cohousing, Harmony Village and more across Denver and Northern Colorado. Walk the spaces, meet residents, ask questions, and see how different communities have turned the idea of living more connected lives into something real.

Our Denver Cohousing Tour is sponsored by , with cohousing Architect Bryan Bowen sharing insight into the design, development, and evolution of cohousing along the way.

Whether you’re dreaming about community, developing one, designing one, or already living it, there’s nothing quite like seeing it for yourself.

📅 Tours October 21–25 | Denver + Northern Colorado

09/30/2026

👏 A big thank you to our Denver Summit sponsors!

The Community-Rooted Housing Summit is bringing together people who are designing, building, financing, organizing, and living new possibilities for housing and community. We couldn’t do it without the organizations and professionals who believe in this work and invest in making these conversations possible.

We’re so grateful to all of our sponsors for supporting a growing movement toward more connected, attainable, inclusive, and community-rooted ways of living.

Give them some love in the comments, and come meet many of them in Denver

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