Gratitude Village Colorado

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🌿 Gratitude Village is creating a mixed-income, fully accessible, Zero Energy cohousing community in Brighton, CO focused on connection, sustainability, belonging, and aging in place.

People with enough financial resources generally have choices about housing.They can prioritize a walkable neighborhood,...
09/13/2026

People with enough financial resources generally have choices about housing.

They can prioritize a walkable neighborhood, energy efficiency, accessibility, good schools, proximity to family, or a place where they actually know their neighbors.

As financial resources become more limited, those choices begin to disappear. The question shifts from “Where would I like to live?” to “What can I qualify for?”

That distinction has changed the way I think about housing equity.
The inequity isn't only that some people have less housing. It's that some people have far less power to choose the kind of life their housing makes possible.

In my newest Substack, I share how my own search for a more connected way to live eventually led me to a much bigger question: Who gets to have choices?

Read the full post: Link in the first comment.

When I first started thinking seriously about cohousing, I wasn't trying to solve the housing crisis. I was looking for ...
09/11/2026

When I first started thinking seriously about cohousing, I wasn't trying to solve the housing crisis. I was looking for a more connected way to live.

Then I realized I couldn't afford most of the cohousing communities I was finding in Colorado. I looked at my daughter and wondered how she was supposed to afford her first home doing meaningful work that doesn't come with a six-figure salary.

Then came more questions.

Could we build homes that cost less to live in because they were energy efficient? Could I age in place? Could our friends and colleagues with disabilities fully participate? Could my Peruvian American daughter see people who looked like her in the community we were creating?

Somewhere along the way, I realized these weren't separate questions. They were all connected to something bigger: Who gets to have meaningful choices about how and where they live?

That's the journey I explore in my newest Notes from the Common House.

Read "Who Gets to Have Choices?" Link in the first comment.

A $400,000 home might be affordable for one household and completely out of reach for another.That sounds obvious, but i...
09/09/2026

A $400,000 home might be affordable for one household and completely out of reach for another.

That sounds obvious, but it has changed the way I think about the word “affordable.”

Affordability isn't only the purchase price. It includes the mortgage, utilities, insurance, taxes, maintenance, transportation and the cost of changes someone may need to make to their home later.

Sometimes spending more upfront on energy efficiency, accessibility and thoughtful design can actually make a home more affordable to live in over time.

At Gratitude Village, we aren't trying to build the cheapest housing possible. We're trying to create homes that people with a wider range of incomes can afford to buy and continue to afford, while also creating a neighborhood designed around accessibility, sustainability and connection.

That is much harder than I understood when we started this journey.

Our newest blog shares some of what we're learning and why “affordable” is becoming less of a price point and more of a question we have to keep asking throughout the development process.

Read the full post: Link in first comment.

What does “affordable housing” actually mean?As we work through the real numbers behind Gratitude Village, I’m learning ...
09/06/2026

What does “affordable housing” actually mean?

As we work through the real numbers behind Gratitude Village, I’m learning how much of the cost of a new home has very little to do with the home itself.

Before we build a single house, there are roads, utilities, drainage, grading, water and sewer connections, engineering, permitting, financing, legal expenses and a long list of other costs. Then we still have to build the house.

It creates a tension we wrestle with constantly: what does it cost to create the community, and what can the people we hope will live there reasonably afford to pay?

In our newest blog post, I share some of what we’re learning about affordability and why there isn’t one simple lever we can pull to make housing cost less.

Ultimately, we keep coming back to one question: Can the people we say we are building this community for actually afford to be part of it?

Read the full post: Link in the first comment.

08/26/2026

✨ Registration is officially OPEN! ✨

What if housing could do more than provide shelter? What if it helped create connection, mutual support, and a true sense of belonging?

Join us in Denver for the Community-Rooted Housing Summit on October 23-24, where we'll explore the bold ideas and innovative housing models reshaping how we live together. Whether you're interested in cohousing, housing cooperatives, co-buying, community land trusts, retrofit neighborhoods, or simply curious about a different way forward, this gathering is for you.

Make it a full experience by joining one of our community tours (October 21-25) and step inside inspiring neighborhoods and projects across the Denver metro area.

🎟 Early Bird pricing ends August 31
• $130 for National Cohousing Alliance members
• $175 for nonmembers

Come for the ideas. Leave with new relationships, fresh inspiration, and practical tools to help build more connected communities.

đź”— Register now: https://cohousingalliance.org/summits/denver2026/

Gratitude Village Brighton has a home!After months of dreaming, planning, searching and building this community together...
08/23/2026

Gratitude Village Brighton has a home!

After months of dreaming, planning, searching and building this community together, we are no longer wondering where Gratitude Village might be. We know where home is.

Gratitude Village Brighton is planned as a mixed-income, multigenerational cohousing community of approximately 40–60 homes, with up to half remaining permanently affordable. The community will be designed around four things that have guided us from the beginning: belonging, accessibility, sustainability and affordability.

To everyone who has believed in this vision, joined our community, donated, volunteered, attended an event or simply cheered us on: thank you. You helped us get here.

Now we get to build the village. đź’š

WE BOUGHT THE LAND! 🎉🏡It’s official: Gratitude Village Brighton has a home.On August 19, Gratitude Villages, Inc. closed...
08/22/2026

WE BOUGHT THE LAND! 🎉🏡

It’s official: Gratitude Village Brighton has a home.

On August 19, Gratitude Villages, Inc. closed on 7.8 acres in Brighton that will become our first cohousing community.

After months of dreaming, planning, searching and building this community together, we are no longer wondering where Gratitude Village might be. We know where home is.

Gratitude Village Brighton is planned as a mixed-income, multigenerational cohousing community of approximately 40–60 homes, with up to half remaining permanently affordable. The community will be designed around four things that have guided us from the beginning: belonging, accessibility, sustainability and affordability.

There is still a lot of work ahead, but this is a moment worth celebrating.

To everyone who has believed in this vision, joined our community, donated, volunteered, attended an event or simply cheered us on: thank you. You helped us get here.

Now we get to build the village. đź’š

When people ask when we'll start building Gratitude Village, they usually mean, "When will construction begin?"Here's th...
08/06/2026

When people ask when we'll start building Gratitude Village, they usually mean, "When will construction begin?"

Here's the thing…

The village is already being built.

Every financial model, engineering drawing, partnership, legal agreement, and community conversation is helping create the foundation for a neighborhood where people will one day know, support, and care for one another.

The first shovel will begin construction.

It won't be the beginning of the village.

đź”— Read more in my newest blog: Before the First Shovel: Why Building a Neighborhood Starts with Spreadsheets.

People often ask what it's like to build Colorado's first Zero Energy cohousing community.The truth is, it isn't just ab...
08/05/2026

People often ask what it's like to build Colorado's first Zero Energy cohousing community.

The truth is, it isn't just about architecture, financing, or construction.

It's also about becoming the kind of neighbors we hope to have someday.

One of my favorite examples is our "Gratitude Captain." Before every meeting ends, he invites us to pause and reflect on something we're grateful for.

It's a simple tradition, but I've come to realize that communities aren't built only through big milestones.

They're built one shared meal, one conversation, one act of kindness—and sometimes one moment of gratitude—at a time.

I wrote about that unexpected lesson in my newest Notes from the Common House. I hope you'll give it a read.

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