Re: marketing Aria Cohousing in Denver to families | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: S. Kashdan (s_kashdanhotmail.com) | |
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2016 16:40:16 -0700 (PDT) |
Greetings all, Here at Jackson Place Cohousing in Seattle, Washington, we began in 2001 with only three children at move-in. One was a very new baby. Some members had adult children who were out on their own. There was no special effort to recruit families with children. Over time, several children were born here, and some families with young children also moved in. Some, but not all, were the friends of those with children already living here. Today, we have twenty children living here, ranging in age from almost two to the late teens. And some of the children who used to live here have left for college and lives in other places. Best regards, Sylvie, Jackson Place Cohousing, Seattle, Washington ----- Original Message ----- From: <yoni [at] kallay.net> To: "Cohousing-l" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2016 4:26 PM Subject: Re: [C-L]_ marketing Aria Cohousing in Denver to families The challenges of raising children are, for me, a primary reason that cohousing is appealing, and I believe that Katy and Chuck cite this as a central motivation behind cohousing in Denmark in their writing. I'm thinking about this a good deal as I work to recruit for a new community near where I live, so I thought I'd share a meta-point, which is that I think a community that wants families has to have "affirmative action" for them, by which I mean it should try to over-represent them. It's a numbers thing. If there's a critical mass of adults required to ensure everyone has a few people in the community they can count as friends, this is also true for children, except that children have narrower requirements for age compatibility. If a community of 40 adults has 10 minors between 0 and 18 (which is what a representative sample of the general population would have) that could give each of those kids very few choices in age-compatible playmates. _________________________________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/
- Re: marketing Aria Cohousing in Denver to families, (continued)
- Re: marketing Aria Cohousing in Denver to families Mabel Liang and Bob Leigh, October 1 2016
- Re: marketing Aria Cohousing in Denver to families Mabel Liang, October 2 2016
- Re: marketing Aria Cohousing in Denver to families R Philip Dowds, October 2 2016
- Re: marketing Aria Cohousing in Denver to families S. Kashdan, October 1 2016
- Re: marketing Aria Cohousing in Denver to families Nancy Csuti, October 3 2016
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