Planned community

In Arkansas, a group of forward thinking folks are turning to design to build a community. One pocket at a time. Click to read the full story.

Photo credit: Shira Golding.The Fall issue of Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO) covers the relationship between intentional communities and solidarity

Pocket neighborhoods are a growing trend across the United States and Canada. They create a friendly supportive community for people in many different stages of their life. Ross Chapin, an architect in Washington first coined the term pocket neighborhoods. Several of those are profiled here.

As tiny living continues to gain in popularity, tiny home communities have been popping up throughout the United States and are now available coast-to-coast.

Now Communities | Smart housing for today and tomorrow.

Oddly, the city has proposed not to encourage a popular concept: handfuls of cottages that surround a common yard

Escape Tampa Bay Village joins the movement toward compact living.

Experiments in cooperative living offer a great model for building sustainable urban communities. But can they work for everyone?

For most Americans, housing is the single biggest expense in their personal budget. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average household spends more than 30% of its after-tax income on housing expenses, including rent or mortgage payments, utilities, maintenance, and furnishing. For single people, the figure climbs to more than 40% of after-tax income. One

Teran Sands | Family Compound Living on Instagram: "Here’s what we did with the land for our family compound. My mom originally bought the land as one big piece of property. When we were all interested in moving to the land we decided which piece each of us wanted. This was after we reviewed the land and county restrictions and knew that each of us needed at least 2 acres to have a water well and septic system. We then had the property divided into three new pieces. Then we replatted and…