Domestic Life

An Intentional Community should be just that, right,? Intentional.  Together we have agreed upon certain cultural norms, and expectations that we’d like to permeate our community.  We don’t like rules so much as we like to agree on standards and hold each other to them.  At this time, we have chosen these things as desirable components to a mutually comfortable living space.  In the future, some will likely change – they’re a function of who’s in the community.

These characteristics are desired and expected of community members who live in our shared house:

Process

Participate in an interview process and provisional membership before becoming a full member

Tell us how long you expect to live here (longer commitments preferred)

Demonstrate experience using cooperative decision-making

Demonstrate experience living in a group situation

Familiarize yourself with consensus decision-making

Tasks

Participate in housework, including help with gardening

Be okay consuming/cleaning/preparing/participating in getting reclaimed food

Be willing to help with childcare

Prioritize attending and participating in community meetings

Actively pursue personal growth

Social Environment

Be flexible and accommodating with public & private spaces

Demonstrate respect and accountability for personal and collective property

Participate in collective property sharing

Recognize the value of community, prioritize the needs of the house

Demonstrate commitment to economic and social justice

Practice mutual aid within the community

Maintain and improve the house and community

Be prepared to communicate openly and compassionately

Practice physical nonviolence with each other (violations of this are grounds for expulsion)

Other House Agreements

Aim to notify housemates 24 hours in advance of overnight friends and family guests

Collective food purchases will be vegan, local food preferable

Commit to minimizing resource consumption, always striving towards better collective ecological solutions

Finances

Participate in our comprehensive income and labor sharing system, which covers all basic economic needs including food, utilities shelter, transportation, medical care, and retirement, and all basic labor needs including cooking cleaning, maintenance, functional meetings, record keeping, etc.