ABOUT US
Common Fire Beacon/Newburgh and the Beacon CoHousing Collective are projects of the Common Fire Foundation. Common Fire supports the creation of intentional communities where people lead lives that are just, sustainable, and joyful, and where the communities are catalysts for change in the broader society.
In the spring of 2008, a group of people from Beacon, Newburgh, and New York City began working with Common Fire to create a community in the Hudson Valley that could be in service to these three cities. Their goal is to create a community committed to ongoing personal growth, means-to-ends consistency, genuine border-crossing diversity, and active service with our larger community, region, and world. It will feature affordable green housing, a retreat center, and many other on-site services and facilities.
Many people in the group wanted to start living their dream on a small scale even as they continued to work towards this larger dream. So they formed the Beacon CoHousing Collective and are close to securing a property in Beacon where they can start living together as soon as the fall of 2010.
