Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: more co-housing like community within a high-rise condo community?

[Richart Keller (richart.keller]

Hi Diana

Sounds like you almost have a cohousing community within your condo
community. 20 units is a good size. I don't know of any communities that
are doing what you are doing, but it sounds like a great idea.

Perhaps someone in the Cohousing Research Network is aware of potential
models.

Rick Keller
Pioneer Valley Cohousing
Amherst, MA





On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Diana Porter <porterd [at] cinci.rr.com> 
wrote:

>
> I have gone to the national conference, have been reading the list-serve
> for years, and had been in a forming group here in Cincinnati for a number
> of years that is now defunct.  My husband and I just bought a condo in an
> 180 unit high-rise condo community.  What attracted us there was a
> sub-group of people who have been holding a weekly “salon” and potlucks in
> the party room/common space for over a year now.
>
> I gave a presentation to them about co-housing and suggested that maybe
> they could buy a larger unit and create their own common space, as they are
> only 20 or so units within the 180.  They are trying to build strong
> community ties.  Are there any models out there for such efforts?  This, of
> course, is a much larger story with push back from the cohort who converted
> the building from apartments to condos in the late 80’s and are still there.
>
> Diana Porter
>
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