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$610 / 1br - Room in established sustainable community
Alder, Eugene, OR 97405
Alder near 22nd
1BR / sharedBa
available jan 2, 2026
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If you have time and inspiration to engage, make, organize, discuss, create, sing, bake, plant, learn, and care about the people you live with, our community might be the place for you.
Our beautiful home has ten bedrooms and six bathrooms with ample shared and private spaces indoors and outdoors. The front and back yard features a landscape including a vegetable garden, hens, a beehive, herbs, and dozens of fruit trees.
If you have strong interpersonal skills, want to live a low impact lifestyle, can reliably complete house chores, and contribute to a culture of caring, please be in contact. We are looking for someone who will be around for at least a year, preferably a couple of years or longer.
We take turns cooking healthy vegetarian dinners (usually 5 nights a week.) Dinner is an important time for both sustenance and sharing. In addition to buying organic food, we recycle, compost, and often use bicycles or walk to get places. On a typical day you might find people talking in the kitchen, quietly reading in the living room, or working at home.
Our home is located on a quiet street a couple blocks from Sundance, six blocks from the University, one block from a bus stop, and three blocks to the new Y (some of us have a group Y membership). Our home is bright, clean, and colorful. We have a hot tub, sauna, furnished guest room, fireplace, fully stocked kitchen, workshop with tools, deck, cob pizza oven, and much more.
We will have a couple of rooms available in January. Inquire for room dimensions, rent, and photos.
Deposit: $725. No first and last month's rent required. A portion of rent goes to local non-profits serving unhoused people.
Utilities: $95 a month. This includes: utilities (electricity, water, sewage, and stormwater), heat, garbage, gas, internet. Solar panels provide nearly 100 percent of our electricity.
Groceries: $247-305 (sliding scale). We purchase groceries to save time, money, and resources. Most of our produce is grown locally. We also harvest fruits and veggies from the garden, enjoy eggs and from our hens and honey when we're lucky enough to have bees. We're a drop site for two organic farm CSA's. While some people are omnivorous, we are a vegetarian household and don't buy or prepare meat as a group.
Household items: $40 a month. This includes such items as cleaning supplies, toilet paper, laundry detergent, canning jars, and tons of other things that you would have to pay for if you live on your own.
Pets: Our home and garden isn't well-suited for large dogs however smaller animals may be possible.
If you're interested in living in community, please write a little about yourself. We try to get back to you promptly but it sometimes can take awhile.
Because we want to make sure it's a good fit for you and us, our process for finding a housemate often takes at least two weeks and often longer.