SmartMoney Blog: Hippie Retirement: High-End ‘Communes’

March 3, 2012

This is actually a great article with a dumb title!  Wolf Creek Lodge is one of those sustainable communities being build right now.

Here is a piece of the article:

Co-housing projects for older Americans, communities of homes on shared land that residents build and operate themselves, are on the rise. The first such development, Glacier Circle in Davis, Calif., opened in 2006. Since then, at least three more have been built — including ElderSpirit in Abingdon, Virginia and ElderGrace in Santa Fe, N.M — and roughly another eight will be under construction by the end of this year, says Charles Durrett, a co-founder of co-housing development company McCamant & Durrett Architects and author of “Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities.” Read More

Please check out this story.

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