Come join us as an inaugural member of the newly forming Odd Fellows Cohousing in San Francisco, located at 1-9 Edward St in Inner Richmond! We are looking for a new neighbor starting April 1st to rent the upstairs junior 1 bedroom unit. The asking rent is $2,200 per month, plus utilities. The unit is unfurnished.
Please reach out to [email protected] if you’d like to come for a tour and a coffee!
Did you know that Rossi Park used to be home to the Odd Fellows Cemetery as early back as the 1850s? In fact the main house where our family lives used to serve as the caretakers cottage for the Cemetery before it was moved to Colma and the land was converted to housing and Rossi Park.
We’re also the type of “odd” folks who believe we’re not supposed to live our lives and raise families alone, and that life is more fun when you have others to share it with.
The unit we are renting is the upstairs ~500 square feet Junior 1 BD in the top right unit of the picture below. The unit has a kitchen and bathroom in a carriage house sharing a side yard with our historic home in the heart of the Inner Richmond/Lone Mountain neighborhood.
Our family house is on the left. The unit for rent is the upstairs unit, up the stairs for the building on the right. We would all enjoy the shared yard in between.
The 3-4 unit multifamily property faces Rossi Park, a 6 acre urban park with baseball fields, soccer, tennis courts, pickleball, a playground, dog park, and a newly renovated public pool. With north facing views of the Golden Gate Bridge, the property is sandwiched at the intersection of several vibrant communities within walking distance: the University of San Francisco just two blocks east; the start of the Inner Richmond neighborhood begins at the corner street, Arguello Boulevard, with restaurants, shops, and the Sunday farmers market on Clement Street, and many resources and public transit along the nearby Geary Boulevard two blocks north; a main entrance to Golden Gate Park, the Conservatory of Flowers and the carless JFK pedestrian and bike boulevard just two blocks south; and just 5 blocks north the Arguello gate entrance to the Presidio National Park. The property is also a block from a laundry mat and two blocks to the locally owned grocery, Arguello Market. Edward Street is a quiet elbow macaroni shaped street that turns into North Willard Street abutted by Arguello Boulevard to the west and Turk Street to the south with easy street parking. Existing neighbors have kept a directory for the street and there is a friendliness which we hope to cultivate into regular neighborhood coffees, cleanups, block parties, and potlucks. The sidewalk facing yard gate lends itself to easy access for shared meals with neighbors, and we’d like to develop the two garden plot boxes on the corner into a shared community garden.
Like other cohousing communities that have grown organically adapting existing buildings within neighborhoods, this venture is an experiment. We cannot guarantee that every house on the block will want to participate in community life as we initiate potlucks and get togethers. However, we do know two families from our kids’ school on the block and have met several friendly neighbors already in the time that we have spent fixing up the property. We do hope that with time and intention that community minded individuals will continue to move in as homes open up over time. Our goal is to foster a vibrant community of neighborliness where neighbors can know and depend on one another. We’d like to model for our children to love your neighbor as yourself.