Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Do you know of cohousing that has evolved in existing neighborhoods?

[Kevin Wolf (kevinjwolf]

Hi All,

N Street Cohousing started in 1988 with about 6 houses that were built in
the 1950s. We've grown to 18 with the latest housed added a few years ago.
You can read more about us at https://nstreetcohousing.org,

Kevin

On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 10:54 AM Joanie Connors <jvcphd [at] gmail.com> wrote:

> Back in the 1970's, I lived on a dead-end street near a university where
> most of the houses and apartments were rented to students. It became one
> big flowing social group after a while, with many deep conversations,
> potlucks and front-porch concerts. We helped each other with gardens, minor
> maintenance and other problems. A few people were mooches and some were
> jerks, but we got along famously during the 2 years that I lived there.
> Of course there were no major fiscal or maintenance responsibilities for
> the neighborhood as a whole, so conflict was low. Who knows what might have
> happened if we hadn't had a hundred-year flood that devastated the area.
> They tore all the houses down and it is now a business park (quite ugly).
>
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 11:31 AM Kathleen Walsh <kathleen [at] positivity.biz>
> wrote:
>
> > Many years ago, Sunset Magazine published an article on a group of
> > neighbors who lived on the same Portland, Oregon block who removed the
> > fences separating their properties and formed a "cohousing-like"
> community
> > based on monthly potluck dinners and informal permission to access the
> open
> > land between their private homes, especially by their children---I
> believe
> > they called themselves "An Ongoing Concern", cleverly inserting the name
> of
> > one of the streets bordering the block, Going Street.
> >
> > Another group of Portland neighbors formed a de facto "street collective"
> > by creating and sharing a handbook describing commitments to pooling
> > resources and fostering healthy connections in regular potlucks and
> action
> > meetings focused on building community resiliency—actions like creating
> > emergency planning agreements and buying certain products used in
> > emergencies collectively.  Street boundaries were used to define their
> > Ainsworth Street Collective, which was a sub-set of the larger Cully
> > neighborhood.
> >
> > The members were folks who lived within the defined neighborhood
> > boundaries who established a collective identity and purpose.  I don't
> > think any financial or labor requirement was a condition of membership.
> >
> > I believe the original handbook was written by one of the neighbors as a
> > thesis project in urban planning or a related field—the concept did move
> > forward initially through the work of a few Burning Souls, then grew
> > capacity as time went by.  It seems the pandemic may have dampened the
> > flame, but the potlucks are starting up again.
> >
> > Kathleen Walsh
> > Portland, Oregon
> > ________________________________
> > From: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l-bounces+kathleen=
> > positivity.biz [at] cohousing.org> on behalf of Kate C via Cohousing-L <
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> > Sent: Monday, July 10, 2023 7:49 AM
> > To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> > Cc: Kate C <katetx2001 [at] yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Do you know of cohousing that has evolved in existing
> > neighborhoods?
> >
> >
> > Laurie,
> > Other than the age focus, this sounds similar to the Village communities
> .
> > Here’s one article. Maybe they’d be a source of information about setting
> > yours up. It’d be very cool to connect your neighborhood “Cohousing”
> with a
> > nearby Village providing a wider multigenerational extended family.
> >
> > Kate
> > Sent from my iPhone
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