Cohousing in Washington, D.C.
Once a relative novelty, communal living facilities continue to increase in popularity.
1/photo by Matt Roth..Steve Pretl, a twelve year Takoma Village Cohousing resident stands in the Washington, D.C. based complex's courtyard, Thursday, September 20, 2012 ()
2/photo by Matt Roth..Jared Marx carries his daughter Beatrice, 1, right, while his wife Kit Slack slowly descends the steps with their two-year-old Nora at the start of their morning walk at the Takoma Village Cohousing complex in Washington, D.C., Saturday, September 22, 2012. ()
3/photo by Matt Roth..Steve Pretl, a twelve year Takoma Village Cohousing resident drops off his recycling Saturday, September 22, 2012. ()
4/photo by Matt Roth..Sucha Mulholland, 9, left, and JoJo Small play on the third floor walkway of the Takoma Village Cohousing complex in Washington, D.C., Saturday, September 22, 2012. ()
5/Photo by Matt Roth..Sucha Mulholland, 9, left, chases Tony Wilson, around the Takoma Village Cohousing complex's courtyard in Washington, D.C., Saturday, September 22, 2012. ()
6/Photo by Matt Roth..Ann Zabaldo, left, asks Tony Wilson, right, to help adjust the placement of her lamp in her third floor Takoma Village Cohousing condo Saturday, September 22, 2012. In addition to being one of the Washington, D.C. based cohousing complex's founding members Ann was on TVC's development team "before there was anything here." ()
7/photo by Matt Roth..Takoma Village Cohousing resident Ann Zabaldo, right, who has multiple sclerosis, has lunch with her friend Brigitte Wazana, a resident of the Blueberry Hill Cohousing community in Vienna, VA Saturday, September 22, 2012. Ann is a Principal Partner with Cohousing Collaborative, an organization which helps build cohousing complexes. She was involved in the development of TVC before anything was built. ()
8/photo by Matt Roth..Takoma Village Cohousing residents and invited guests gather in the Washington, D.C.-based complex Saturday, September 22, 2012 during the beginning of Norton Francis (out of frame) and Anne Stauffer's (standing) Green Chile party. JoJo Small, foreground had her face painted like Captain America at a festival earlier in the day. Residents also attending the party are Ann Zabaldo, far left, Kit Slack, middle (hat) and her daughter Nora, 2. ()
9/photo by Matt Roth..Residents and friends invited to the Green Chile party thrown by Takoma Village Cohousing residents Norton Francis and Anne Stauffer socialize in the Washington, D.C.-based "intentional living" community's Common House Saturday, September 22, 2012. ()
10/photo by Matt Roth..It's bubble time for Takoma Village Cohousing children (clockwise from foreground left) Imogen Mendolsohn, 4, JoJo Small, and Carolyn Hoff, in the Washington, D.C., cohousing community's courtyard Monday, September 24, 2012. ()
11/photo by Matt Roth..Takoma Village Cohousing residents, including Candice Naidoo (an au pair living with a family while going to school), chat during the weekly "Soup n' Simple" dinner held in the complex's Common House, Monday, September 24, 2012. ()
