cohousing

There are also cohousing communities where individual homes — sometimes even tiny homes — are arranged around a building with a communal space such as a dining room.

Although cohousing projects are typically built on properties that have municipal water and sewer, she said, the Rocky Corner project was a rural property and involved reserving a portion of the land for farming.

The remaining members are hopeful that Ion Bank will sell the project to a developer interested in following through on the cohousing effort.

For Claudia Ruffle, living in a cohousing community was a lifelong dream.

Cohousing, a form of collaborative living that originated in Denmark, provided “a structure where I didn’t have to be outgoing and could still get the benefit of getting to know people,” said Ruffle, 72, a former substitute teacher and administrative secretary.