Cohousing-L Mailing List: Working from the common house or other common spaces?

[Marilyn Kakudo (mkakudo]

After seven years of anticipation and planning we are in the middle of the 
construction of our 25 unit cohousing development in Hood River. We are a 
multigenerational cohousing community currently composed of an equal number of 
retired and working households. A quarter of our households have children from 
a future newborn through school age up through young adult. We are still 
actively searching for members, and have recently experienced a stumbling block 
for households with very young children and at least one parent who now works 
remotely from home since the pandemic. We’re having difficulty matching our 
limited inventory of units to the needs and resources of these potential member 
households. One solution might be to provide a small office or workspace in our 
common house that is shareable or schedule-able in some way. Is this something 
your cohousing community has done or tried?

This outreach is to learn if your cohousing community has encountered this 
problem and been able to solve it in some fashion. We would love to hear any 
and all ideas, attempts, successes and failures too, and learn from you. Also, 
if your community was not able to come up with any solution to accommodate 
potential member households such as these.
Thanks for taking the time. 

Marilyn Kakudo
Adams Creek Cohousing
Hood River, OR

p.s. If you were successful and have time to take a survey, please let me know 
and I will send it to you. No obligation of course😉