Starlings House

Starlings House is a shared household in its very beginning stage of formation, in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you’re inspired by the vision and would like to receive updates, I invite you to contact Jana Cole at [email protected] to be placed on the list to receive updates.

Starlings House is a community were we place a high priority on getting along well with each other, through Non-Violent Communication (NVC) and honoring core social values. We strive to live in harmony with nature as much as possible. Everyone participates in decision-making using sociocracy.

Starlings House is open to all demographics and all interests. What we have in common is our dedication to harmony, sustainability and inclusion and our desire to create a place where we can pursue our personal interests as well as co-create activities and projects.

### **Harmony Together**

Our core social values:

– Consideration — treating others as you would want to be treated

– Generosity — giving without expecting anything in return

– Caring — taking care of the other person

– Optimism — finding the good in everything

– Honesty — seeking your truth and speaking it kindly

– Self-awareness — looking within before judging others

– Forgiveness — responding to injury with kindness

– Acceptance — accepting people and situations as they are now

– Peacemaking — taking peaceful action and finding new beginnings.

Living in harmony includes balancing individual needs and the needs of others. It means being willing to find unexpected solutions to disagreements. It means sharing the work of cleaning, arranging and maintaining our community.

### **Harmony with Nature**

We minimize our carbon footprint as much as we can by reusing, recycling, composting, growing and/or raising a little food, sharing equipment, etc.

### **Decision-Making Together**

Sociocracy is our decision-making process. Everyone’s voice is heard. Everyone participates and contributes to making decisions.

**Proposed location:** Pacifica, California. It’s next to the ocean (just south of San Francisco), quiet and beautiful. The house would be in one of the northern districts of Pacifica, most likely Pacific Manor or Edgemar.

The town has cafés, Pacifica State Beach, hiking trails, Sharp Park Golf Course, Pacifica Skating Park, a fishing pier.

There’s easy freeway access to the San Francisco peninsula, the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge and the San Mateo/Hayward Bridge. There’s easy and reliable bus service to the area’s subway system, BART (Colma and Daly City stations) . Distances to nearby places: downtown San Francisco 20 min (13 mi); Daly City 7 min (4 mi); San Mateo 22 min (16 mi); San Jose 49 min (49 mi); Half Moon Bay 27 min (16 mi); San Francisco International Airport 10 min (9 mi).

**Number of members:** depending on the size of the house, 6 to 12 people.

**Proposed move-in date:** Summer 2026. At this time, the focus is on gathering a group of people who feel inspired by this vision.

**If this vision inspires you, feel free to get in touch with Jana at [email protected] to be placed on the list to receive updates.**