Co-housing, an intentional neighbourhood

Co-housing advocate Robin Allison has envisioned and built an alternative way of living. Individuals and families live in a kind of curated community, enjoying the perks that come with pooling resources, including regularly cooking for each other at the Earthsong Eco-neighbourhood in Ranui, West Auckland. Robin got this 32-dwelling village-within-a-village project off the ground 1995, and hundreds of people have bought into it since. Robin tells Kathryn Ryan how she trained as an architect and guided the entire development and construction phase of this innovative project, as told in her book Co-housing for Life. It's her story, and she hopes, a guide for others interested in co-housing.