The Supernuclear Directory

aka the Table of Contents

Our guide to coliving is divided into “The Hard Stuff” and “The Soft Stuff.” The Hard Stuff will appeal to the left side of your brain: Legal and financial structures, finding property etc. The Soft Stuff will tickle the right side of your brain: Managing conflict, decision-making, etc.

We solemnly vow to leave no side of your brain untickled.

We’re also including a series of case studies to help you understand how individual communities run.

= On the newsstand: Articles we’ve written =

Opening remarks from the editors

• From Phil

• From Gillian

• and a five years in update from both of us

Directory of coliving communities:

• Here.

The Hard Stuff

• Rent vs. Buy vs. Build

• Managing finances in a coliving house

• Co-buying property with friends (long, detailed post!)

• 5 ways to get a loan when co-buying

• A low-risk way to see if coliving is right for you

• Leases, Subleases, and Master Tenancy, oh my!

• Building cohousing in California just got easier

• How to co-buy a vacation home with friends - part 1 and part 2

• Making money move(s)

• The Radish FriendLLC model explained

• How much to charge your friends rent

• 4 Do's and 3 Dont's on coliving space architecture/design

• How to find your first coliving experience

• Dreamship shares their co-ownership LLC agreement

• Reducing Food Waste in Community

• The nuts and bolts of moving into a new community house

• Why it’s worth having a community wiki

• How to buy a duplex (or triplex)

• The long-awaited Friend Compound laws in California

• The power and beauty of incrementalism

• How to start a school with your friends

• How (and why) to do pop-up communes

• On Coliving and Tiny Apartments (cross post from Thesis Driven)

The Soft Stuff

• Meet Cheryl — Your coliving nemesis

• Fairness is overrated and bragging is underrated: Motivational systems for coliving

• The 9 kinds of people you’ll find in coliving

• Group-decision making

• Why you should tip your landlord

• Why not now?? (getting started)

• Opt-in exclusivity

• 11 strategies for keeping your coliving community clean

• The Obvious Truth: Planting a flag

• Really, we’re not a cult: a survey of rituals that bond coliving communities

• The narcissism of small differences

• Common misconceptions about coliving

• Connecting a multi-unit home to facilitate coliving

• Making decisions efficiently: Fist to Five

• Dunbar’s number and community size

• Radish 4 years later: Coliving → Neighborhood

• Rules vs. Principles

• The pyramid of coliving needs

• Babies @ Radish: the early review

• What the research shows about living near friends

• The Beneficent Fairy of Friendliness🧚

• Tom Sawyer your way through life

• Building a home wherever I roam

• Book Review: Other Significant Others by Rhaina Cohen

• Harnessing collective potential: lessons from the 2023 Community Living Wisdom Exchange

• Finding the right fit

• Building neighborhood communities

• A video interview with Phil and Kristen about their relationship and living in community

• Can you date your roommate?

• Does your friend next door need to be your *best* friend?

• Why is it so hard to get families to live in communities?

• Beyond Burnout: building resilient communities

• The case for having roommates (even when you can afford to live alone)

• 6 qualities to look for in housemates (that go beyond splitting rent)

Case studies of communities:

• The story of RGB (11-person rented house in San Francisco)

• The story of Radish (12-person co-owned compound in Oakland)

• The story of Gramercy House (5-person rented house in NYC)

• The story of Rabbithole (7-person rented house in San Francisco)

• The story of Bauhaus (5-person rented apartment in Oakland)

• The story of Ski Cult (17 person ephemeral community in Taos, NM)

• The story of Clarens Commons (7-person co-owned house in Toronto, CA)

• The story of Postel (56 person sharehouse in Tel Aviv, Israel)

• The story of Whale House (6 bedroom house in Maui, Hawaii)

• The Story of The Village (14 adult, 4 kid multigenerational home in San Francisco)

• The Story of Feÿtopia (a ~40 person seasonal community in Burgundy, France)

• The Story of Sage House (9 bedroom house in Highland Park, Los Angeles)

• The Story of Ashley & Cody’s (3 bedroom house in Durham, NC)

• The Story of Moos (a 28-bedroom residence in Berlin, Germany)

• The Story of the Palm on Deakin (a 5-bedroom co-owned house in Berkeley, CA)

• The Story of the Cotty/BarBAEdos Commune (a 5-25 person ephemeral community in Canada and Barbados)

• The Story of Template (a ~6 person community centered around the needs of formerly incarcerated individuals in San Francisco, CA)

• The Story of Windhover (a 12 person community in South Africa)

• The Story of Red Door TV (a 6-8 person residency in Las Vegas, NV)

• The Story of Clarendon (a ~6-8 person house and ‘third space’ for many in Cambridge, MA)

• The Story of Picklebric (a 6 bedroom co-op in Boulder, CO)

• The Story of merlins place (a 4 bedroom community space in Brooklyn, NY)

• The Story of Parrot Bungalows (a 3 unit cohousing community in San Diego, CA)

• Video tour of Radish

• The Story of Open Field Coliving (a ~15 person homestead in Castlemaine, Australia)

• The Story of Stoop Coffee (a neighborhood community in San Francisco, CA)

• The Story of Edge Esmeralda (a 1300 person pop-up village in Healdsburg, CA)

• The Story of Workshop House (an 8 person house in Washington, DC)

• The Story of the Chalet and the Cottage (a 3 person co-owned set of houses in Berkeley, CA)

• The Story of Mars College (a ~60 person seasonal pop up city in southern California)

• The Story of the Dhamma Pad (a ~7 person house dedicated to meditation in Berkeley, CA)

• Turning Neighborhoods into Communities (how people in NYC, Santa Monica, and Brzeźnica, Poland built thriving neighborhood communities)

• The Story of K9 Coliving (a ~50 person converted hotel in Stockholm, Sweden)

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• Case study of your community (we’ll give you a template!)

• Design porn: Pinterest board of your space

• Interesting experiments you’ve run in your coliving communities

• Downfalls: Did you coliving community face-plant epically? Tell us about it so others don’t make the same mistakes.

• Anything else you feel passionate about sharing

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