Sentences with phrase «in cohousing»

Julie G. was looking to build a new home in a cohousing community in Saugerties, NY.

Another clear challenge, of course, is that you must like to interact with people to enjoy living in cohousing.

«The shared meal program, which is pretty typical in each cohousing community, is incredible.

While not a senior, Paiss chose to live in a cohousing community for this very reason.

Currently, there's a lot of interest in cohousing, in which people co-own parcels with different units and share amenities, such as a common kitchen, media room, art studio, or garden.

While there are monthly fees to live in a cohousing community, it's typically less expensive than facility - based long - term care, considering Genworth's 2014 Cost of Care Survey.

We've just started raising chickens this year in our cohousing community.

I live in a cohousing community where we have group meals twice a week and everyone takes turns cooking.

Not exact matches

In fact, a friend who is moving into cohousing and I just bought a team of draft horses together for farming — something I just couldn't have managed on my own right now.»

All events provide the opportunity to meet families involved in the project, see a slideshow about cohousing, tour the prototype and learn more about the particular goals, benefits, designs and requirements for joining this forward - thinking community.

Project Manager and founder Sanna McKim is quoted as saying, «I'm personally excited about cohousing because it frees up time in my day to play with the kids, have a spontaneous glass of wine with a friend on the porch, and easily share meals and hobbies and resources... if we want.

Abby and Denise: In early 2007, four families sat down to start planning a cohousing community spurred on by a beautiful and well - loved dairy farm on the market.

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«When we really looked at our dependence on fossil fuels for practically everything needed to live comfortably in Maine — home heating, transportation to work and school, even getting Hannaford's shelves restocked every 5 days — an ecologically - minded cohousing community seemed like one viable and attractive alternative.

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.

In addition, cohousing coprophagic mice harboring transplanted microbiota from discordant pairs provides an opportunity to determine which bacterial taxa invade the gut communities of cage mates, how invasion correlates with host phenotypes, and how invasion and microbial niche are affected by human diets.

Cohousing mice harboring an obese twin's microbiota (Ob) with mice containing the lean co-twin's microbiota (Ln) prevented the development of increased body mass and obesity - associated metabolic phenotypes in Ob cage mates.

They restored symptoms simply by cohousing their mice with a microbially richer strain, suggesting that the traits they had come to rely on in their research hinged on a delicate balance of mouse microbes.

Researchers traced the unusual rat colony to a single room at the vendor's facility, and they restored the original urine composition in a few weeks by cohousing the rats with animals from other rooms.

«Some people can still fall through the cracks,» he acknowledges, «but in a setting like this, if you set it up, seniors create their own senior cohousing community.»

We're planning artists cohousing in Boulder County Colorado with 36 residences and about 5 or 6 shared studio / work spaces in a common space with galleries, teaching, and casual performance spaces.

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.

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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.)

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In this way, the concept of cohousing functions as a product service system...

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

This post about the «Cheesecake Cohousing Consortium» shows that small, communal living isn't just about Millennials living in the middle of the city.

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).

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.

With more than 200 people, from toddlers to seniors, living in three «neighborhoods» built between 1996 and this year, it's the world's largest example of cohousing, or private homes centered around a common space.

While Simply Home is the first «tiny cohousing community» that Lina knows of, there are many ways to live in community with others.

Cohousing is kind of the opposite end of the spectrum, in that everyone owns their own home, but has an equal share in common facilities.

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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.»

Lina and a few other tiny housers are part of Simply Home, a nascent tiny cohousing community right here in this large backyard that shares resources and land.

We also had a panel discussion with four community members from two different tiny cohousing communities in Portland.

addressing the social, psychological and legal consequences of parental separation in a fully integrated, holistic manner, with dispute resolution processes cohoused with the necessary family supports;

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.

«Cohousing creates another option that has some cost and benefits but appeals to a certain group of older adults and gives them the ability to age in place.»

In fact, most cohousing developments are intergenerational, not just for seniors, so the living arrangement is perfect for seniors who need the extra support but are able to live alone.

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.

Kim went with the latter option when she decided on a year - round farm for the rooftop of the Capitol Hill Urban Cohousing development she's working on in Seattle.

Grace Kim, a founding principal of Schemata Workshop in Seattle, told a packed room of congress attendees that this version of cohousing is generating interest within a wide cross-section of society.

A city spokeswoman said the city has no guidance on cohousing because it's not defined in the land - use code.