Re: Advice | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Office Manager (nisanda.albaughcohousingco.com) | |
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 13:04:07 -0800 (PST) |
Please read "Senior Cohousing: A Community Approach to Independent Living - The Handbook" by Charles Durrett. It is available at Amazon.com. Thank you for your interest. -- Cathy Chmel Office Manager McCamant & Durrett Architects The Cohousing Company 241 B Commercial St. Nevada City, CA 95959 530.265.9980 cathy.chmel [at] cohousingco.com > Greetings, > > My name is Nicole Wilde and I am new to this listserve - which I am grateful > to have found. > > I have been hired by a local group to begin researching an alternative to > traditional independent and assisted living facilities in our region (N. > WI). I have long been aware of co-housing from travels in Europe, and based > on the culture of our region, is one direction we will seriously explore. > However, since I have just been hired onto this project, I am at point 0. No > study circles/community research has been conducted specifically on this > topic- however many people are involved in sustainable development > (green/social) study circles at this time and senior housing and access to > affordable housing has risen as a reoccurring topic - so people are > organized and there is already discussion is my point - just not focused on > this topic. > > Based on all of your various experiences with co-housing, senior co-housing > and senior programs, I would like to ask the following: > > 1) What books/publications should I be reading as a primer? > 2) What are the predominant questions I should be asking at this initial > phase? > 3) What training should I be attending? > 4) If you were me, what would be your first steps to begin researching this > idea? > 5) What is/are the senior co-housing(s) facilities that is the > benchmark/standard that I should visit? Names of people who made these > happen. > 6) Keeping seniors in their home as long as possible is part of the > vision/discussion - is this part of the co-housing equation? If yes or no, > any communities that I should look at that is doing this well. > 7) Legal/Finances - where can I find legal business model structures and > financials for successful sustainable co-housing projects. What I am looking > for here is capital costs, financing (Lenders, investors, and renters: > equity/debt), operations etc. > > Any other advice/ideas are welcome. Obviously there are questions I am not > thinking of, so feel free to answer those as well. > > Thank you very much for your ideas and time. > > Warm Regards, > Nicole Wilde > nicole [at] wildegrowth.com > > _________________________________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/ > > >
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