Screen Door Cohousing Community: An Asheville Urban Village

Mission: We seek to build a cohesive community for seniors, organized around ways of working together that will sustain us, and designed with an eye to beauty, accessibility, and environmental responsibility.

From www.ic.org/directory/screendoor-community/:

We have created a core group of active adults 55 and older who share a common dream of aging independently, but not alone. Through word of mouth we found each other. And now, together, we are designing a collaborative community in a beautiful spot right on the edge of downtown Asheville, NC. Our intention is to grow and manage the community such that each of us has privacy, a meaningful role, and mutual support.

A service of the Data Commons Co-op. The project has been supported by Equal Exchange, the Cooperative Charitable Trust, the USDA, and many others - thank you! Tech volunteers over the years include: Benjamin Bradley with support from GAIA Host. Ben Mauer with support from Quilted. Paul Fitzpatrick. Ronin Tech Collective, Brattleboro Tech Collective, Sligo Computer Services. Jason Lemieux. Default map tiles courtesy of MapQuest. Default map data (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA.