About Our Model
Boomers Collaborative is developing a different kind of housing choice for adults age 55 and older — a resident-owned, limited-equity housing cooperative in a walkable, mixed-use setting.
Residents will help own and govern the cooperative together. Each member will have one vote and may choose either an individual home or shared occupancy while retaining their own membership, privacy, and personal independence.
A More Sustainable Way to Age in Place
The community is designed to help older adults remain owners, stay connected, and retain independence as their housing, transportation, and mobility needs change.
Transportation, groceries, services, work, culture, and neighborhood life should remain within reach, making it possible to drive less — or eventually stop driving — without becoming disconnected from the larger Austin community.
Housing + Community Life
The first community will bring together two distinct but complementary parts — the resident-owned housing cooperative and nonprofit mixed-use spaces serving residents and the surrounding community.
The housing cooperative, coffeeshop-bistro, and baker space are planned to open together. Additional makerspace, retail, and performance spaces may follow later when demand, funding, and operating partners are in place.
Residents will govern their housing cooperative. Experienced partners will operate the nonprofit spaces. The two parts will remain separately owned, financed, and operated.
What This Makes Possible
Members can share the costs and responsibilities of the building while retaining privacy and independence. Professional managers and service providers can handle day-to-day administration, maintenance, and accounting while members determine the cooperative’s direction.
The larger setting is intended to support continued ownership, mobility, connection, useful work and community participation — without expecting neighbors to become one another’s caregivers.
Explore the Model
Full Community Prospectus — Working Draft
Community Presentation
Architect’s Concept
