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

[Patricia Bailey (editorialcaptive]

Great you brought this up, as our Membership Circle was just talking about this 
yesterday! So I went online and found at least one article that is very helpful.

https://www.cohousing.org/work-from-home-in-cohousing/ 
<https://www.cohousing.org/work-from-home-in-cohousing/>

Pat Bailey
Cohousing ABQ
Albuquerque, NM

> On Jun 5, 2023, at 4:14 PM, 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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