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Our community's mission is to be an environmentally sustainable, affordable, multi-generational
cohousing community that includes land reserved for agricultural use and open space and is an innovative
housing model for rural Maine.»
The fish were maintained under three conditions: individual fish
housed alone with no exposure to others; fish
cohoused in groups of either immune - compromised members or wild - type individuals; or mixed groups of fish with both immune - compromised and wild - type individuals together.
I'm pulling together a group of artists Boulder County Colorado to plan and develop an urban - ish artists
cohousing community with live / work spaces, a common
house including community outreach / inreach such as gallery and performance space, teaching, etc..
Innovative responses outside the art community to entrenched financial problems — whether
cohousing, where
housing space is shared and community activities and decision - making are prioritized, or crowdsourcing the purchase of debt and then cancelling it — should motivate others.
7 - 10 pm at the Temescal Creek
Cohousing Meeting
House.
Using a
cohousing model, this small community of tiny
house residents have their own private spaces in addition to sharing an existing big
house, and other resources.
Baugruppen, unlike
cohousing, which tends to be a grouping of single family
houses often in the burbs, are multi-story, multi-family buildings, located in cities (Eliason likens them to condos).
Excerpts and Readings: «The Web of Life» by Scott Russell Sanders ~ «Back to We» by Amitai Etzioni ~ «To Learn the Things We Need to Know» by Freeman
House ~ «Community - Based Restoration» by Christine Schneider ~ «
Cohousing» by Diane Meisenhelter ~ «Help Groups» by Steve Whitson ~ Neighborhood connections worksheet
i also ran across a great looking swedish
cohousing development which has a diversity of ages and
housing types http://www.houzz.com/projects/1601025
Lina is part of a unique tiny
house community modeled after
cohousing designs: several tiny
houses share a lot with a big
house, but they also share the big
house itself.
NY residents interested in becoming a part of such a community can join the recently formed Brooklyn
Cohousing Group which is hoping to create a
housing complex in the kid - friendly Park Slope area.»
In fact, an elderly widow who moved to a
cohousing community from a rural area recently choked on a bone and was able to run out of her
house and get help.
Although each community is unique, most
cohousing communities share a set of principles: resident involvement in the planning process; a common
house and other facilities and land owned jointly; a physical layout that encourages interaction (e.g. individual homes clustered around a common
house); and collaborative community management, says the AARP paper.
Currently, there are about 115
cohousing communities made up of nearly 2,700 households in 23 states, according to Rodney Harrell, Ph.D., senior strategic policy advisor for
housing issues for the AARP and the AARP Public Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. «We [the AARP] believe that there must be a range of
housing options for older adults at different price points,» says Harrell.