Why Burlington Cohousing? Why Now?
As you can read on the pages of this website, Burlington Cohousing (we call it “BCOHO”) is a site of neighbors seeking to live vibrantly and meaningfully together.
In our 17+ years, it has never felt more important.
We cook, meet, plan, share information, learn, garden, paint, and take action together, building community and supporting our individual and shared efforts towards the world we believe in. We are excited for the next friends and neighbors who will join us in this joyful and (of course!) challenging shared work and play.
Read on for more information about us, though we do not currently have any units for sale. (Things can change quickly, though!)
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We are a dynamic, inclusive, multi-generational intentional community, comprising 12 townhouses, two single-family homes and 18 flats, plus extensive indoor and outdoor common spaces. To keep our self-managed community thriving, we all participate in decision-making and the management and care of our community, land and buildings. We enjoy an active and interdependent community life, taking part in community meals, work parties, and other social activities. To learn more about cohousing, visit the cohousing.org web site.
We enjoy a great location – directly across from the University of Vermont (UVM) campus and the UVM Medical Center and adjacent to UVM’s 68 acre Centennial Woods nature preserve. We are about a mile and a half from Church Street, Lake Champlain, and downtown. Burlington is a fun, progressive small city with numerous shops, restaurants, services, and public events.
Notification List: When there are new listings, we send the news to all potential buyers or renters on our Notification List. If you’d like to learn when other units become available for rent or sale, please join our list by completing the form that’s at the bottom of this page.
Financial Assistance: If you can’t quite afford to buy a market-rate home —- please note that we have several units that can only by purchased after being qualified by the Champlain Housing Trust (CHT). A buyer who can show enough financial resources to pay a low interest mortgage, but not enough to buy a standard “market-rate” house is given a grant to offset a portion of the down payment. To learn more, please go to CHT’s website and navigate through their links about buying a home.
If you are at average or just below average income, our advice is to to go directly (ASAP) to CHT’s website and go through their process to discover if you qualify to buy a home with their assistance. It is possible that another unit here will go on the market and you, having been qualified in advance by CHT, would be in a position to purchase it.
All homes rented or purchased, at whatever sale price, are part of our self-governed co-housing community. All owners (and renters too, often) share in the many benefits as well as the responsibilities that help this community thrive.