Designing and developing cohousing projects

By Chris Arnold

Building sustainable communities through cohousing

Transforming Cities welcomes Katie McCamant, President at CoHousing Solutions. Katie brings the depth and diversity of her 35 years of experience as a developer, architect, and cohousing resident to benefit her clients. 

She’s the coauthor of Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves, the book that introduced cohousing to North America, and more recently, Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities. She co-founded McCamant & Durrett Architects and The CoHousing Company with Charles Durrett.

More recently, she started CoHousing Solutions as a development consulting firm to share best practices and systems for successful collaborative development. She works with urban, suburban and rural communities all across North America, helping them define and implement their development strategy and build the professional team they need. She also founded the 500 Communities Program to train other professionals to work in this realm.

Katie lived for 12 years at Doyle Street Cohousing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and now lives at Nevada City Cohousing in the Sierra Foothills.

Latest Interviews

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Mike sits in the hot seat in this episode, plus a bonus question at the end of a 9-question rapid-fire round! 

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Discover prime CRE opportunities and expert insights on Tampa’s booming market with Developer’s Driveway, and guest John Pugh of Pugh Management.

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