Sentences with phrase «cohousing residents»

Other cohousing residents echo the tenets of using less and coming together more.

Not exact matches

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.

The ideas behind cohousing include a few standard principles, including resident participation in design and master planning, physical design that specifically refers to communal usage and social interaction, communal facilities, resident management, non-hierarchal structure and decision - making, and no shared economic reliance (that last part making it decidedly unlike a commune — phew.)

Like a co-op, cohousing communities are often designed and managed by residents in order to best suit their needs.

A resident of Cobb Hill Cohousing in Hartland, Vermont, Tom has more than a decade of successful leadership experience in Upper Valley nonprofits, including as a Senior Philanthropic Advisor at the Vermont Community Foundation, and prior to that as Executive Director at the Ottauquechee Health Foundation in Woodstock.

Others volunteer at soup kitchens or share potluck meals, says resident and cohousing advocate Ann Zabaldo.

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.»

They transformed an existing neighborhood into a cohousing community, making it more cost effective for residents and rehabilitating a community suffering from a large inventory of vacant and distressed homes.

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.