Kathryn McCamant, an architect and co-author (with her husband, Charles Durrett) of the seminal book Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves, which introduced cohousing to North America in 1987, has consulted on the launching of over 50 cohousing communities. In 2006, she founded CoHousing Partners, a real estate consulting firm specializing in developing sustainable communities. In 2011, she and Charles released Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities, which covers their 20 years of creating cohousing communities across North America. She has lived in cohousing for 17 years. (www.cohousingco.com; www.cohousingpartners.com)
