Spring Collective (Formerly known as Heiwa House)

The Spring Collective, originally founded as Heiwa House in 1985, changed our name in 2019 to the Spring Collective to better reflect our evolution into a multi-house community. We are embarking on a new chapter in 2025 after taking a brief hiatus in 2024 while we made repairs to our common house. Currently, we have a membership capacity of eleven adults in three houses.

We are a vegetarian community, and our membership tends to be environmentally conscious, politically active, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender celebratory, intergenerational and musically inclined. Our homes have often served as a meeting space for political and social justice organizations, personal growth groups, and community strengthening gatherings.

Over a period of fourteen years, we lived in four consecutive rental houses. In 1999, we purchased our first house, establishing a permanent location for our community. In September of 2005, we expanded next door, to an additional house. In 2019, we purchased another adjacent house, growing our community to three houses. We dream about continued growth on our block, creating a cooperative neighborhood in northwest Ann Arbor.

The Spring Collective’s mission statement is: to provide affordable cooperative housing for a diverse membership through cooperatively owned property, communal living, and resource sharing, while upholding principles of sustainability, peace, racial and economic justice, lifelong cooperative living, and involvement in local community.