Living Collectively in the City

Urban collective living offers an affordable,
sustainable way to live in a city, as well as
challenge the notion of property ownership.

The Red Clover Collective formed an urban intentional
community in the Better Waverly neighborhood of
Baltimore in 2004 and is now six members. Participants will tell of
their experiences with group dynamics, consensus decision making,
creating policies, working through stressful times
and conflict, buying property, and incorporation.

The Landslide Community Farm (Pittsburgh) will describe the potentials and problems of larger scale urban collective living, especially when the needs of long-term residents and short-term visitors need to be balanced in the context of a cooperative living and working environment.