Parent institution: Solar Community Housing Association

J Street Co-op is one of the many cooperative houses in Davis, California. Both J Street and its sibling co-op, Sunwise Co-op, are managed by the Solar Community Housing Association, a non-profit organization whose board is comprised mainly of current and former J Street and Sunwise members.

J Street Co-op is in Old East Davis, in a house dating back to the 1920s. The house was the former location of the Davis Art Center and was converted back to housing through a self-help remodeling effort that included raising the roof and adding additional living space. Currently, the house is about 2,400 square feet (not counting its basement) and contains seven bedrooms (two downstairs, five upstairs), two bathrooms (one upstairs, one downstairs), a kitchen, sunroom, living room, dining room, back deck, office landing, and a fantastic front porch. Unfortunately, the house does not presently incorporate any solar technologies, but did have a chalkboard for a while.

J Street offers accommodations for one- and two-person households. At full capacity, the house fits around eight people. The co-op has typically been home to a strong contingency of University of California, Davis undergraduate and graduate students and people working for the University, but the co-op is open to anyone who makes less than 80% of the Area Median Income ($34,650 as of 06-07). The Co-op is a low income housing opportunity and an equal opportunity housing provider with an emphasis on sustainable living, vegetarian and vegan community dinners, and making decisions by consensus. Member obligations include: one cook night a week (with another cook), some chores, two house meetings per month, and monthly work parties. We eat dinner together at 7pm Monday - Thursday and most Sundays. Please feel free to join us some time. In addition to our residential house members, the Co-op usually takes on one to three "boarders," who are people who eat dinner with the house and take on a cook night per week (with a partner). We accept applications for new house members whenever a spot opens up in our house (we'll make an announcement on our Davis Wiki page).