Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Seeking info about women sharing cohousing units

[Lavinia Weissman (subscriptions]

RE:  Seeking info about women sharing cohousing:

My profession as a inter sector journalist, coach and facilitator for
projects of social value and WorkEcology leads me to find out about the
frontiers of innovations that occur or are still merely on paper:

This network led by Dr. Bill Thomas is at the leading edge. Bill has
received an award for his work from the Heinz Foundation and his Green
House project has been capitalized by a $10M grant from Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation.

Cohousing as we age and age in place is a very complex issue for men and
women.  Dr. Bill Thomas has generated the most value in view, practice and
education:

Here are two links worth reading:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/060619/19leader.htm

http://www.secondjourney.org/newsltr/05.06/05.06_NY_Thomas.htm

I am tentatively scheduled to join the annual conference of the Pioneer
Network in August to look at issues related to aging- death and dying.
This network is also of exceptional value.  www.pioneernetwork.net.  My
colleague Joe Angelilli is the community coordinator for this effort and
will welcome hearing about any innovations with respect to aging in the
Cohousing community.  If you contact them, please let them know you heard
about them from me.

RE:  My own recent post to this list. I am very overwhelmed by the
response I received. I am on my way to visit a community this week and
appreciate everyone's letters, inquiries and thoughts.

Warm regards,
Lavinia Weissman
www.workecology.com/redesign2
617.461.0500


On Sat, March 10, 2007 2:47 pm, VAN DEIST wrote:
> I'm helping to develop elder cohousing in Venice, FL.  I'm also an
> advocate
> of Shared Housing and have designed two, barrier free models for this
> purpose.  One model is a 1200 ft2, 2BR, 2BA, split design cottage (2
> master
> BR suites).  The other model is a much larger, 4BR, 4.5BA mini estate ( 4
> master BR suites).  I'm living in and sharing the smaller model, but I
> haven't had the opportunity to build the larger model.  I always thought
> that the 4 master BR suite (based on a B&B design) would be best utilized
> by
> three owners who would have the 4th suite available for guests, renters,
> or
> caregivers.  If you've got the people; I've got the design.
>
> Van Deist
> Venice, FL
>
>
>>From: Lia Olson <liajo [at] sbcglobal.net>
>>Reply-To: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
>>To: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
>>Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Seeking info about women sharing cohousing units
>>Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:55:18 -0800 (PST)
>>
>>This is an interesting idea, and-- as a woman approaching retirement who
>>will
>>have a comfortable income yet not enough to be able to purchase a home on
>>my
>>own, but who is, nevertheless, determined to live in a co-housing
>>community--it's one I'm interested in exploring.  I wonder if there are
>>other
>>women out there who would like to open communication about this
>> possibility
>>and
>>see where it leads.
>>
>>Lia
>>
>>
>>--- Communities Magazine <communities [at] ic.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> >    I'm writing to ask a favor of Cohousing_L readers.
>> >
>> >    Do any of you know of two or three or four older women who share a
>> > single housing unit in a cohousing community, or share a house in a
>> > lot-development-model cohousing  community? It's for a program on
>> > older women sharing housing on Retirement Living TV, a national TV
>> > network with programs for older people. They're considering doing a
>> > program on older women who live together for companionship, support,
>> > connection, and to share expenses and save money. I'm trying to help
>> > find women who do this, to help the producer of this possible segment
>> > find some people to interview.
>> >
>> >    Thanks very much for any suggestions you can send.
>> >
>> >    Diana Christian communities [at] ic.org
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