Cohousing usually refers to communities structured as small neighborhoods where each household has its own small, fully featured home and the community shares a large common house. Cohousing communities generally share some meals together as well as some other resources but generally don't share income. A cohousing community is usually designed and built all at once with a pedestrian focus but some 'retrofit" cohousing communities utilize existing buildings. The list below includes communities that self-identify as cohousing and so not all will meet these broad criteria. The Coho/US Cohousing Directory provides a more carefully selected directory of cohousing communities.