Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Co-living Bloom

[Kathryn McCamant (kmccamant]

But really, co-living has been around forever…we are just seeing a new version 
as entreprenuers try to scale it as a business model. 
Way before my time, when single people moved to the City, they often moved to 
boarding houses where they got a room, used the bathroom down the hall and ate 
together, with the landlady providing regular meals as part of room & board. 

In my day, for over a decade, I and then we lived in shared houses.  For years, 
 we lived for years in a big shared house in Berkeley with another professional 
couple, and sometimes someone else ….In fact, that’s where we wrote the 
original cohousing book, and where Jessie was born, before we moved to Doyle 
Street Cohousing. We lived in shared housing primarily because it was a lot 
cheaper, but also because it was more fun with lots of great dinners and cheap 
wine. 

What is new, is developers trying to scale co-living rather than the grassroots 
shared house model and boarding houses of old. 

Katie 
-- 
Kathryn McCamant, President
CoHousing Solutions

241B Commercial Street 

Nevada City, CA 95959

T.530.478.1970  C.916.798.4755

www.cohousing-solutions.com
 




On 12/12/16, 6:06 AM, "Cohousing-L on behalf of Ty Albright" 
<cohousing-l-bounces+kmccamant=cohousing-solutions.com [at] cohousing.org on 
behalf of tmalbright [at] verizon.net> wrote:


Re: the co-living trend ... is definitely from the Millennial start-up
culture.

 

Actually - this has been around for a long time - since before Millennials
have been old enough to sign a lease - it is largely something seniors seek
out and in most any city of any size there are groups that help with this.
Possibly the senior generation is not into posting things on social media or
using other current tech methods for communication - but this movement has
been going on for some time.

 

Seniors seek co-living for the same reasons others do - save money, desire
for companionship, safety in numbers etc.  

 

Ty

Ty Albright Project Management
Little Red Hen LLC
214-336-7952
 <mailto:tmalbright [at] verizon.net> tmalbright [at] verizon.net
 <http://www.linkedin.com/in/tmalbright> www.linkedin.com/in/tmalbright

 

 

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 14:47:09 +0000

From: Crystal Farmer <crystalbyrdfarmer [at] gmail.com
<mailto:crystalbyrdfarmer [at] gmail.com> >

Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Co-living Bloom

I have seen the co-living trend too. It is definitely from the Millennial
start-up culture,

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