Does anyone know of any homestead style of communal living on the land for queer and indigenous people?

Interested in learning how to build this!

Hello, I'm just a traveler looking for direction, and purpose. I'm currently in the East Bay Area. Are there any communes excepting any new hard workers? Make me a believer! Love and light

I carefully read the rules and not totally sure if this post is allowed, but I hope so!

I'm a freelance journalist working on a magazine story about unconventional roommate setups driven a little less by economics and more by desire/eccentricity (i.e. people who can probably afford to live alone—renting or otherwise—but choose to live with others for non-financial reasons, to have company, or for whatever other motivation.

For instance, I know two single moms who are best friends and they live together in one apartment even though they could live alone, because they want to share life together, and it's useful for sharing childcare too.

I've also known a few people who don't have a designated bedroom, but opt to sleep in a common area. And I've read about non-professional athletes working full-time jobs who choose to live together so they can focus on their sport together.

Very open to whatever interpretations of this are out there. I figured this subreddit would be a good place to look into for something like this. Does anyone know of people with unique living situations along those lines?

Hello all, I am a Brain Injury Liaison working in a transition house for women fresh out of domestic abuse situations. I am putting together an information package of tips and tricks to help orient folks to communal living. I would love some input for brainstorming content. What would have been helpful information for you? If you are already living communally, what are some things you do that make life a little bit easier for yourself and others?

I have wanted to live in a communal setting since I was a teenager. A self sufficient, sustainable, LgbtA+ and disabled friendly community.

I literally have no idea how to go about this. I am now thirty. 🥺 Especially somewhere that would accept my guardian dogs and my cats.

I am so willing to learn, to do, to live a better life. I'm working on getting out of my unstable and unsafe home, and away from my unstable father. Everything just seems so hard.

Do you y'all have any ideas? Tips? Advice?

If it helps, I am currently in southern Oregon, UsA. I've wanted this so bad, for so long. Thank you

Hey guys. I’ve been watching Good Trouble on Disney, and love the idea of a large communal living space, do places like this actually exist? If so do you guys have any suggestion in the Ontario or British Columbia area?

I’m curious as to what other peoples thoughts are on kitchens. Is it better to have a large communal kitchen and no kitchens in homes, full kitchens in homes used for communal meal making (John makes one dish and Jane makes another) or some combination of both private and communal kitchens?

Hello everyone, I'm currently studying MA Architecture at university in the UK. For my thesis I am researching the community benefits of communal living developments such as co-housing and co-living.

I am keen to get some first-hand feedback from people who are living in these communities. I have put together a survey to help inform my research, and I would be very grateful if you could take the time to fill out the survey:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf2js7wEfD1X7RIV0kUtN8XlyIhYuABLhE-_VMB0bmZoFkymg/viewform?usp=sf_link

Most of the questions are multiple choice and all responses are anonymous

Thank you in advance 😊

Hello everyone, I hope you and yours are all well.

I am writing to introduce you to Georgism (/r/georgism; aka geoism) and the plans we are developing to create a network of a self-governing, self-sufficient, and just intentional communities.

The key idea behind Georgism/geoism is that no one owns the land because they did not create it. People make things with their labor and capital, but no one made the land or natural resources, which are humanity's common inheritance in Nature or God's gift to humanity in common. Recognizing that the government is completely corrupt and incompetent, we have taken it upon ourselves to devise a model community that reflects proper socioeconomic ideals. The Georgist model revolves around the community recovering the cost of allowing private ownership of uncreated, natural wealth, which is the community's common property. This wealth is known as "economic rent" in political economy, and is by far the largest source of all wealth in the world, eclipsing all public debt and private equity combined.

Socializing economic rent is achieved by holding an auction for the LLC's lands (to be acquired by consensus) amongst the membership of the LLC. Members will bid for the right to occupy the land for a year, with the option to extend for another year by paying a 1% premium over the next year's winning bid. All of the location fees paid by member's in occupancy will be divided equally amongst the members at large after costs. Further, the LLC will buy-out the immovable improvements members make to the land, and lease them back to the next member-occupant, at fair market value, unless the members come to a private agreement to transfer the improvements between them. In this way, the LLC provides a back-stop guarantee to ensure members who develop the land will realize a fair return.

You can read the proposed operating agreement for the Geoist LLC(s) in full here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wu0GaZ8Z4ScV2JO58VtIj2s8bKkESRfg/view?usp=sharing

I would be very much interested in your thoughts.

I'm curious if there are any communes out there that practice hunter / gatherer methods. I have been practicing bow hunting, fishing and foraging and think it would be nice to join a group of people who dedicate themselves to this lifestyle. There is a lot of federal land in California. Maybe there is some group of people out there? I somehow doubt they would spend much time on Reddit, though...

I'm looking for people to talk with and learn from regarding communal living. I've had a really hard time finding a space to share ideas and learn from others who are more experienced on this topic - hopefully some of you are here, even though this sub seems pretty inactive.

I want to create a community living space, or join one if I can find something right for me. I'm pretty much interested in a "hippie commune" like you'd expect. Sharing meals and community activities, living collaboratively, with respect to the Earth through minimizing waste, thoughtfully cultivating plants and fungi including foods, etc. People of all ages, including families, would be great. I'm a woman in my mid 20's. Remote work, wifi and money can still exist, but working within the community would reduce the cost of room and board.

Are you interested in creating something like this too? Or do you know of a place like this that's not a college campus, retirement home, or a kids' summer camp? Or perhaps you've experienced something like it in the past and can tell me about it... Please reply!

I also do want to live in a communal living setting so any added information about how to do it in as many various places in the uk that would be lovely and I would appreciate it :) thank you if people respond aha

I am currently working on a project regarding the home search experience. If you could, please complete this 2-5 minute survey. Thank you!

https://forms.gle/jCc2XfNn5V5DLY1C9

I'm at a moment in my life where I know I need a change in my life. I recently graduated from college, and ever since I moved back home, I haven't been able to express my true self. Everyone I know, even my friends, aren't aware of how severe societal control is.

I was wondering if I were to visit/live in a hippie commune, would my student loans deter me from doing so? I feel so stuck in a reality I don't belong in.

If anyone has advice for me, it would be greatly appreciated.

-Marigold

Looking to start a communal living situation and was curious of any downfalls that people have personally experienced in communal living. Any suggestions on how to avoid these downfalls?

There haven’t been any posts for a few years now? Anyone willing to kick it back in gear? I live in a communal home and I’ve got some damn questions!

How do you purchase property if a group of people are going to share it?

What is the best community you have observed, or read about?

I was reading up on the kibbutzniks, and I found their stick-to-itiveness to be amazing. However their goal was more than simple survival, they were building a country.

What communes do you admire?

TL;DR- The workload associated with living alone, or away from community are inefficiently accomplished. Living together might allow people in the community to maximise their time and money, to result in a better life for all.

I have been thinking about the problems encountered by single families. We work too much, and are not efficiently using our resources. Difficult and costly lessons are learned at too high a price. The young have no one to teach them how to live better, and the old have no one to talk too. Young families have to pay for expensive childcare, while the elderly desperately wish they could see their grandchildren. The first world problems of having a large house creates too much upkeep to be fun. We are too specialized to do everything around the home, and not specialized enough to pay others to do the work. As working people we spend to much time at our vocation to focus on our physical health. Physical health suffers as physical fitness and diet suffers under neglect. Nutritious foods are expensive to make, both in terms of money and time. Home economising could fix many of these situations, but a home economist would leave too large a gap in the checking account when there are bills to pay.

So what to do?

If families lived together, those working spending their money to finance living arrangements, while those unable were to take care of domestic matters, such as raising children, and providing for food and chores, hypothetically all could benefit.

What do you think?

Good afternoon.

I have been looking into communal living for some time. I am hoping to find others of a similar mind, and hopefully live with them in the future.

I would like to rekindle this subreddit and see continuous activity here.

Live well.

-Jack

I participated in a youth volunteer-service program called Katimavik (in Canada). 11 of us were placed with a "project leader" for 9 months in total, 3 rotations of 3 months in different communities.

we were all in the same participant group but lived in different houses, had our meals provided from a central budget while we volunteered in the communities we stayed in.

two people would stay home each week and cook/clean for the rest of the group, and these "house managing" groups rotated each week as well. there was to be no co-habitating of separate genders in the bedrooms, males slept in one, there were two separate rooms for the girls, and the project leader had her own room. participants stayed in bunk beds.

we started off with 11 participants, by the end we had 8 of us. infractions can lead to being kicked out, one had left of her own accord.

overall i'd say it worked very, very well, but it was heavily structured.

any specific questions? I'm not quite sure all what to put.

I know near-nothing on the matter, although the idea of starting some sort of commune intrigues me. Just how possible is it to start one? Where would one start, for that matter? What are the resources that one would need? How do you find others that share an interest? If it is self sustaining, would you have to pay taxes?

Thank you for your answers. I hope this /r/ grows.