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

[Philip Dowds (rpdowds]

At Cornerstone, we’ve long been pretty flexible about allowing members to make 
occasional reservation of the commons for their business or professional 
activities.  But you’re asking about something different, which is probably a 
“hot desk co-working space” (Yes, that’s a thing).  We’ve never had one of 
these, but offhand, I see no reason why it can’t be made to work.  You need the 
room, you need some rules, and maybe some shared office equipment.  Maybe 
combine it with a community library or other additional desirable amenities.

But if you rent access (rather than make it available to anyone for free), now 
your community may be seen as running a business, which may have implications 
you don’t want.

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Thanks, RPD
Cornerstone Cohousing
Cambridge, MA
617.460.4549

On June 6, 2023 at 7:47:36 AM, Marilyn Kakudo (mkakudo [at] comcast.net) wrote:

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😉
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