The N Street Cohousing community began as standard subdivision units that were built in the mid-1950’s consisting mostly of 3 bedroom-2 bathroom houses separated by fences in Davis, California. In 1986, the first two houses were joined when Kevin Wolf bought the co-op house he was living in that is now the common house and his wife, Linda Cloud, purchased the house next door.
An event in the late 1980s that was critically important to the future of the community was the development of its consensus based decision making process with a “fall-back voting” procedure where a super-majority of members could over ride blockers of a decision. Donna Spreitzer’s master thesis comparing Muir Commons Cohousing to N Street Cohousing provides some documentation on the origination of the process.
