Hager Homestead

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About the Community

  • Established
  • Town/Small City

What we do

We are the first senior cohousing community in New England!
25 of our 26 households are all moved in and doing the cohousing thing every day!
The LAST REMAINING HOME – a lovely 2 bedroom walkout facing our 12-acre meadow- is available now for purchase! We’re listed on the MLS now – check us out on your favorite real estate platform – MLS#73358406.
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Our community is in Littleton MA, a small farming town which is also on the commuter rail line to Boston. So we check the boxes for both small town and suburb!
We have wide-ranging interests and talents – birding, gardening, woodworking, bicycling, cooking, kayaking, quilting and other fiber arts, yoga, singing and playing an orchestra-full of instruments, traveling, and the list goes on…
We are working fulltime or part time or are blissfully retired.
We are mostly long-time residents of other towns in the area, and have welcomed several ‘outlanders’ to the group.
Our original founders and core group have been together for several years and it’s been rather remarkably stable as forming cohousing goes, so we know each other well and are grateful every day for the realization of this dream.
Our biggest success story so far has been in community building among our participants, and we think that has much to do with our governance framework, sociocracy. People are engaged, energized, finding new connections, and having fun together.

Our Vision

Vision: We envision a world where seniors can live in a close-knit community of neighbors who know and care about each other; where they can share resources, be independent, and participate in the life of the community.

Mission: To thrive as the first 55+ cohousing community in New England; to enjoy and promote the benefits of living in community.

Our Mission

Vision: We envision a world where seniors can live in a close-knit community of neighbors who know and care about each other; where they can share resources, be independent, and participate in the life of the community.

Mission: To thrive as the first 55+ cohousing community in New England; to enjoy and promote the benefits of living in community.

  • Community type
  • Cohousing

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  • 34 Total members
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
  • Open to volunteers
Total
34

How to join

At this point, we are down to the last home, so our getting-to-know-you may be mostly after-the-fact. Going forward, we plan to maintain a Waiting List for resales. The details of that process are TBD.

Basic expectations or agreements for members

Call us to set up a time to walk around the property!

Primary decision-making authority

  • All Community Members Together

The whole membership decides collectively.

Governance structure

  • Sociocratic/Circle-Based

Organized in circles or domains with distributed authority.

Economic model

  • Independent Finances

Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.

Economic scenarios for this community

  • Members need to pay fees, dues, or similar to live there on a per month or per year basis
  • There is a labor obligation
  • Members typically need to have their own job or other personal source of income to cover their expenses while living in the community?

Additional economic information

Monthly fees/dues: Yes (amount not specified)
Labor: Encouraged or suggested
Hager Homestead will shift to an HOA structure when the project closes after the Common House is renovated.

Shared resources and amenities that are accessible to everyone in the community

Common House, Garden(s), Workshop, Outbuilding(s), water/sewer

Frequency of communal meals

  • About once a week

Substance use culture

  • Substance use occurs in peripheral / discrete / only in personal or private spaces

Property status

  • Privately owned

Property owner

  • By a Land Trust, Home Owners Association, or corporation

Setting

  • Town/Small City

Smaller municipalities with local services but rural character.

  • Land area size
    15 acres

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Location

  • Massachusetts, United States

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