Do we have to become real estate developers to create our community? Who do we need to hire and what do we try to do ourselves? When is the right time to bring in an expert? How do we get the best out of our professionals? These are reasonable questions that all forming communities ask. Hear from the woman who has helped communities get built for over 35 years on who, when and how to engage your professional team.
This two-hour session is designed to help launching communities better understand the professional landscape, make sure cohousers are making the most of their investments in experts and introduce those in the beginning of their journey to the different types of professionals in the cohousing space.
Instructor: Katie McCamant
Katie leads CoHousing Solutions. She brings the depth and diversity of her experience as an architect, developer, and cohousing resident to her clients. She lived in Doyle Street Cohousing in Emeryville, CA, for 12 years, and now lives in Nevada City Cohousing in the Sierra Foothills. both communities she founded.
Katie is a licensed architect and coauthor of the authoritative book on cohousing, Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves, which introduced this housing model to North America. Katie co-founded McCamant & Durrett Architects / The CoHousing Company with Charles Durrett, in 1987, and partnered with developer, Jim Leach, on numerous projects. Since then, Katie has designed and developed dozens of cohousing communities in the United States and Canada. In addition to pioneering cohousing in North America, Katie has designed a variety of other building types, including numerous affordable housing communities and a sustainably designed (LEED certified) Unitarian Church. For the past 15 years, Katie has focused on the development side of cohousing projects, founding CoHousing Solutions, a development consulting firm that works with forming communities all across North America. She also offers the 500 Communities Program which is a year long training for professionals that want to work in collaborative development and cohousing.
She has worked on all aspects of developing cohousing from project kick-off to move-in. Her expertise includes setting up project budgets, structuring financing, and facilitating planning approvals, finding construction financing, contractor selection, construction management, marketing efforts, and community policy creation. She also works with groups to find appropriate development partners, and then assists in structuring those partnerships.
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