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title: Intentional Community Housing Application Form Template | Paperform
description: Screen prospective members for your intentional community with this comprehensive application covering values alignment, work contributions, and consensus decision-making commitment.
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### Simplify Your Intentional Community Housing Applications with Paperform

Finding the right people to join your intentional community, co-housing project, or cooperative living space is about more than just filling vacancies—it's about building a harmonious, values-aligned household where everyone contributes and thrives together. This **Intentional Community Housing Application** template helps you streamline the screening process while getting to know prospective members on a deeper level.

Whether you're running an ecovillage, urban co-op, land trust, spiritual community, or collaborative housing project, this template is designed to help you assess not just financial capability, but also values alignment, work ethic, communication style, and commitment to your community's unique governance model.

#### Why Use Paperform for Community Housing Applications?

Traditional rental applications focus purely on credit scores and employment history, but intentional communities need to understand the whole person. With Paperform's flexible, conversational form builder, you can create an application that feels welcoming and human while gathering all the essential information you need to make informed membership decisions.

This template includes sections for personal background, values alignment questionnaires, work contribution expectations, experience with consensus decision-making, conflict resolution approaches, and references—all in one beautifully designed form that reflects your community's ethos.

#### Designed for Cooperative and Community-Led Housing

This template is ideal for:

 - **Ecovillages and sustainable living communities** screening new residents who share environmental values
 - **Urban co-housing projects** looking for neighbors committed to shared resources and mutual support
 - **Spiritual and intentional communities** assessing alignment with core beliefs and practices
 - **Artist collectives and creative co-ops** finding collaborators who contribute to the creative ecosystem
 - **Land trusts and cooperative land projects** identifying stewards committed to long-term community building
 - **Student housing co-ops** matching housemates with compatible living styles and shared governance expectations

#### What's Included in This Template

**Personal Information & Background:** Collect basic contact details, current living situation, and timeline for moving in.

**Values Alignment Questionnaire:** Understand what matters most to applicants—sustainability, social justice, spirituality, simplicity, creativity—and how their values align with your community's mission.

**Work Contribution & Skills:** Clarify expectations around shared labor (gardening, cooking, maintenance, childcare, administration) and discover what skills and passions each applicant brings to the table.

**Community Living Experience:** Learn about previous experience with shared living, cooperative governance, and collaborative decision-making.

**Consensus Decision-Making Agreement:** Ensure applicants understand and are willing to participate in your community's governance model, whether that's consensus, sociocracy, or another collaborative framework.

**Conflict Resolution & Communication:** Assess how applicants handle disagreements, their communication style, and their commitment to working through challenges constructively.

**Financial Contribution:** Collect information about ability to pay rent/membership fees, understanding of shared financial responsibilities, and any economic needs or constraints.

**References:** Request contacts from previous housemates, community members, or others who can speak to the applicant's suitability for communal living.

#### Streamline Your Member Selection Process

With Paperform's conditional logic, you can tailor follow-up questions based on applicants' answers—for example, asking for more detail about consensus experience if they've participated in collaborative governance before, or exploring conflict resolution approaches if they mention previous household tensions.

Once submitted, applications can automatically notify your membership committee, populate a shared spreadsheet or Airtable base for review, or trigger a workflow in **Stepper** that routes applications through your community's approval process—whether that's individual interviews, trial stays, or full-group consensus meetings.

#### Automation That Respects Your Values

Intentional communities often operate with limited administrative capacity, so automation can be a game-changer. Use **Stepper** to:

 - Send personalized welcome emails with information about your community, visitor guidelines, and next steps
 - Schedule interview times or trial visit periods automatically
 - Route applications to different community coordinators based on availability dates or specific interests
 - Create tasks for membership committees to review applications before consensus meetings
 - Update your member database or CRM when applications move through different stages

This means less admin work and more time for the meaningful relationship-building that makes intentional communities thrive.

#### Beautiful, On-Brand Forms That Feel Personal

Your community has a unique identity—whether rustic and earthy, modern and minimalist, or vibrant and creative. Paperform's design flexibility lets you customize fonts, colors, images, and layout to reflect your community's aesthetic. Add photos of your land, gardens, shared spaces, or community gatherings to help applicants envision themselves as part of your household.

Unlike generic housing application forms, Paperform templates feel conversational and human, encouraging thoughtful, authentic responses that help you find people who truly belong.

#### Secure, Organized, and Collaborative

With Paperform's team features, multiple community members can access and review applications, leave internal notes, and collaborate on membership decisions. All data is stored securely with SOC 2 Type II compliance, and you can control exactly who sees what with roles and permissions.

Export submissions to Google Sheets, Airtable, or your preferred tool for easier comparison and discussion during consensus meetings. Use **Papersign** to send membership agreements, work contribution MOUs, or house rules for eSignature once applicants are accepted, keeping everything connected and trackable.

#### Trusted by Communities Worldwide

From permaculture farms to urban co-housing to spiritual retreat centers, intentional communities around the world use Paperform to manage applications, coordinate work schedules, gather feedback, and build stronger, more connected households. The platform scales beautifully whether you're a small household of six or a village of sixty.

Ready to find your next community member? This template gives you everything you need to assess alignment, set clear expectations, and welcome people who will contribute to your shared vision for a better way of living together.
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