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Cohousing is a cooperative form of housing with a common house and private houses. Cohouses are resident managed and often resident designed. A popular book on cohousing is Cohousing: A contemporary approach to housing ourselves by Mc Cammant and Durrett. Cohousing (co-housing) is very popular in Denmark and increasing so in the USA and Australia. There are over 100 cohousing groups in USA. Cohousing is great for families, singles and couples in traditional and no traditional families. Cohousing is an alternative housing model with many applications. A common house and common meals are distinctive ferature of cohousing. Our home page lists contacts for cohousing groups in Australia and has documents used by Cascade Cohousing. Our legal agreement is available for download. There are links to the cohousing web in the USA and cohousing-l list server. There is also a cooperative cohousing group in Hobart and a eco village association is being developed. Cohousing has major benefits for the environment and environmentalism. Cohousing is intended to engender a sense of community. sense of community is important to the concept of cohousing. Alternative housing, environmental housing, low toxicity housing, permaculture, organic gardening, the environment, public transport, cycling are all issues of interest to some members of Cascade Cohousing. we run a food cooperative in our common house, often share childcare, have a shared workshop and laundry (though some houses have their own laundries). Individual houses are fully self contained. the common house supplements the private house. Cohousing combines the best of communes with the best of private houses. We aim to remove feelings of isolation while maintaining privacy. car parks at cascade cohousing are on the edge of the site to make all the internal areas child friendly. The children have their own room in the common house. there is a TV room and guest room. We have a commercial sized kitchen with a domestic feel and cooking for up to 20 adults is easy. Common meals are a great success. Cohousing is a great new form of housing or real estate. Cohousing groups often act as real estate developers in there early stages.