We are an LGBT-focused, ages 55+, community in Durham, NC, with 15 acres of wooded land just 20 minutes from downtown Durham. We are gay and straight, single and coupled, working and retired, in Durham and beyond, and we represent a variety of professions, skills, and interests. Construction started in November 2018 with move-in planned for late 2019/early 2020.

Vision

Our Vision is to live in an active, caring community with the infrastructure to age in place, balancing the privacy of a smaller sustainable dwelling with opportunities for social engagement and the support of the larger community. 

Values

Our Values include respect, sustainability, supporting health & aging in place, fiscal responsibility, balancing community & privacy, and beauty of the commons.

Our Inspiration
Oakcreek Community in Stillwater, OK

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Oakcreek Cohousing Community in Stillwater, OK, is our favorite senior cohousing community! Their project was also led by Katie McCamant of CoHousing Solutions and Chuck Durrett of McCamant & Durrett Architects (see more on our Professional Partners). We love the cottage style quads, the paved sidewalks on a gentle slope, and the many outdoor nooks for visiting along the way to the Common House.

​We are grateful to Oakcreek Cohousing for spending many hours with us to help us get started in forming Village Hearth and for allowing us to take extensive photographs of the community and use them here to help share our vision.

The porches are full of life in Oakcreek Community (Stillwater, OK)

We've lived in places and not known our neighbors at all, and that's very sad. This is combating that isolation that would only get worse as we age.

Pat McAulay, Village Hearth Cohousing