Re: Unit mix/size | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Sharon Villines (sharonsharonvillines.com) | |
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:34:35 -0700 (PDT) |
>> I just heard about another possible model for designing units that >> accommodate people on a budget, single or otherwise. Two or three large >> bedrooms with their own bathrooms around a common kitchen-living room. I've known people who set up these arrangements not in cohousing. There are many group houses in places like DC, NY, college towns, etc. Unless the people were friends before they rent a place and move in, these houses work best if one person rents an apartment or buys the unit and rents to the others. Then that person is the ultimate buck stops here person. The larger community needs one person they can expect to supervise the unit. I live next to a person who used to have roommates continuously. It was very difficult just to listen to all the problems and some were not so small. Without one person owning the unit and managing it, the community will be in the small hotel business. This is a lot of responsibility on top of learning how to get a cohousing community up and running. I can't over emphasize what life is like with 43 new households, all of whom have just moved. They may be happy refugees but the dislocation experience is overwhelming when no one knows where their clothes or dishes or checkbooks are. And everyone has to figure out where the best cleaners is and where to get a car fixed, etc. Sharon ---- Sharon Villines Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC http://www.takomavillage.org
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