Meet the group!

We are a group of motivated individuals who want to co-create a thriving cohousing community!
Contact us to find out more and get to know us at one of our upcoming events!

Russ Yttri
The seed for an intentional lifestyle was planted  back in the Roaring 90s while living in Tennessee. Here he attended many Gatherings over the years at rural communities that shared resources. Now that his servitude  to a large corporation has expired he was curious when he came across Bassett Creek cohousing table at the renewable energy fair in the fall of 2017. Spring of 2018 he became a member. He likes to be out in the world exploring and hopes to make the earth a better place to be one action at a time.

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Bob Aderhold and Audrey Kingstrom
We’re into cohousing because we want to reduce our carbon footprint and be a part of a more closely knit,
 multigenerational community with ample common spaces
for sharing meals regularly and engaging in activities of mutual interest.
Bob’s passions are making music with his friends, bicycling, gardening, humanism, and getting out in the natural world. For his day job, Bob has worked in banking and securities regulation in the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and at Wells Fargo.   Prior to coming to Minneapolis in 1995, he was policy researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He’s also served on local non-profit boards.
Audrey is a native Minnesotan, but spent 16 years in and around New York City– where she and Bob met. Currently, Audrey is a Humanist Celebrant and a leader in the Twin Cities humanist community.  Prior to returning to the Twin Cities,
she was the acquisitions editor at Columbia Teachers College
Press and taught social studies in New York City Public Schools. Bob and Audrey have lived in Edina for the past
25 years where they raised two sons, Tim and Gabe who also live in the Twin Cities.

  Fred Olson and Becca Brackett
Becca Brackett and Fred Olson have been encouraging community for the forty years they have lived in North Minneapolis. Their home was an Urban Homestead in 1977 and Fred did most of the rehab work himself – but draws the line at painting – which Becca will do. After Fred found out about cohousing he founded the Cohousing-L email discussion list which is still going strong at 24 years.
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Becca retired from Family Medicine practice at HealthPartners after 37 years. Now she has more free time to make quilts and participate in the www.mnquilt.org/Minnesota Quilters organization. She relaxes by growing flowers both domestic and native prairie plants at a nearby school. Her other interests include Central American Archaeology and the lincolnplayground.org/ Lincoln School Playground Reimaginging project.
 Becca is a  Ham radio operator,  N0CAH, has used mostly the 2 meter band, but inactive now. They raised their son on the Northside, and he is now 29.  With an empty nest and a house that always needs something, Becca  hopes to downsize into a cohousing unit in the Bassett Creek Cohousing.

Chase Turner + Betty Byrne

Chase Turner & Betty Byrne: Mid-50s couple with two college age kids seeking sustainable housing and community in the Twin Cities metro area.  Currently home owners in St. Paul

Ian and Ellen Thomas

Ellen and Ian Thomas are looking forward to a car-free, low-impact, community-rich lifestyle in the Twin Cities area.  Recent empty-nesters currently living in Columbia, Missouri, Ellen is a pediatrician and Ian is an educator and advocate for transportation reform.