Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Millennials and Co-Housing

[Maggie Dutton (maggiedutton]

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On 24 October 2015 at 11:10, William New <wnew [at] stillcreek.net> wrote:

>
> > On Oct 24, 2015, at 3:16 AM,Catya Belfer <catya [at] pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > twenty-something renter in my house and it’s GREAT to have him as a
> member of my household / my community.
>
> I too have a Millennial living in our three-generation household, and
> agree that this is a very positive contribution to provide an extra driver,
> extra muscle, extra cook, and extra pet care within our extended family.
> Indeed for white-hair seniors like myself planning to age-in-place, they
> are a wonderful addition.
>
> Increasingly, Millennials are living with parents/extended families or
> other group arrangement rather than forming their own independent
> households:
>
>
> http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/07/29/more-millennials-living-with-family-despite-improved-job-market/
> ?
>
> There is beneficial synergy here where retired elders provide the housing
> (often an empty-nest large home) and the youngsters provide physical help
> and household income, especially where housing is very expensive in
> full-employment high-demand areas (in our case, San Francisco/Silicon
> Valley, but also our compadres in high-tech Boston and Seattle environs).
>
> Larger properties lend themselves to this sort of arrangement.  The
> cross-generational element is mutually beneficial, especially to seniors
> for whom health risks and depression are aggravated by isolated living
> (both US and worldwide):
>
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22994616
>
> Millennials (born 1980 - 2000) are the largest age demographic today in
> the US, far larger than the GenXers behinds them (1960 - 1980) and the
> slowly vanishing post-WWII Boomers behind them.  The fastest growing age
> demographic are the oldsters (75+, in the last third of life) who also hold
> the greatest fraction of wealth in the US:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_age#Demographic_changes
>
>
> http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2011/11/07/the-rising-age-gap-in-economic-well-being/
>
> Thus there is an attractive collaboration between Millennials and Oldsters
> (particularly War Babies and the Silent Generation born 1925 - 1945) —
> metaphorically, grandchildren living with grandparents, one contributing
> current income and the other capital housing assets.
>
> There is a natural tension between parents and children (establishing
> independence) but a natural comfort between grandparents and children
> (“sharing a common enemy”) that helps three-generation living arrangements
> work well. As we consider co-housing (or any of the many euphemisms and
> variation for cooperative/collaborative residential situations), we should
> ponder whether the late 20th Century concept of separate family home in
> suburbia is still relevant, even if arranged in a cooperative “village”,
> when Millennial household formation is occurring less and less, probably
> driven by economics but also by a psychosocial shift from the Me-thinking
> of the Boomer generation to the We-thinking of Millennials.
>
> === Bill (thoughts over morning coffee)
>
> William New
> StillCreek Commons
> 94062-0951
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