Raines Cohen

Community organizer and co-creator of cohousing neighborhoods, condos with member investment and participation in the creation process. Global EcoVillage Network Ambassador. Audacious Aging contributor, Aging-In-Community specialist. Board member, Sage-in

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published ADU Expo Cohousing and Tiny Home Villages in ADU Expo 2026-02-27 19:20:55 -0800

ADU Expo Cohousing and Tiny Home Villages

Bay Area ADU Expo 2026

Visit us at booth N102 (Hayes building downstairs foyer) at Bay Area ADU Expo 2026 in San Jose, this Feb 28-March 1 weekend.

Meet Cohousing Coaches Raines & Betsy, plus other area community organizers. See lots of tiny homes / Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) / backyard cottages and the folks who make them and help people build them.

At our table: Learn about area Tiny Home EcoVillages and models for tiny home communities across the country.

Saturday 10-6, Sunday 9-3. Free (register in advance on the Tickets link to save time on arrival)

Silicon Valley Cohousing organizer Robert will be at our table Saturday 1:30-3 or so, followed by Mari-Lynn Harris who is looking to create an affordable tiny home village.

Youth Spirit Artworks Tiny Home EcoVillage in Oakland

 

 

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published cohousing and beyond followup 2025-11-02 10:39:31 -0800

cohousing and beyond followup

Here’s where we will link to opportunities Raines and Betsy discussed at the conference in Sacramento, including the 11/11 CalStart EV charging grant webinar.

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published SWICA 2021-03-05 09:31:51 -0800

SWICA

We're delighted to be co-sponsoring the Southwest regional communities conference, organized by SWICA.

March 19-21

Virtual from your home/community

SWICA will be holding our inaugural Spring Regional Conference. At this time, we are planning on conducting it as a hybrid, some people in person and others virtually. For those that remember the West Coast Communities Conference of 2017, we will build on that to bring together our South-West communities to become even more interactive and cohesive, so we truly can say we are a Regional Community. 

The Theme for 2021 is "Community Where You Are". How can we build cooperative society where we already live? How can we best include residents that are in our neighborhood? How can we get the word out to people that don't even know what Intentional Community is? 

Co-sponsored by Foundation for Intentional Community (FIC)

Learn more and register here.