Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Encouraging Multigenerational Community

[Kevin Wolf (kjwolf]

" On a visit to another  cohousing community, we were told that it was 
benificial to have restricted 
membership to one third families, one third couples and one third singles.

Hi all
N Street is an interesting example.  Out of 40 adults.
18 have families in the community with 18 kids.  This just decreased as one 
couple's last kid just left the house.  So that moves them into the couple 
category.  This also includes two single parent families. 

We have four couples (8 adults without kids - 3 because they don't have any 
kids yet.)  Three of these couples were single people in the community who 
became couples after meeting each other here.

We have 19 single adults (non coupled).  2 are elderly whose spouses have died. 
 Three are divorced whose kids live in the community. One is a widow with a 
young kid.   i(Note that these last four people are in both the family and the 
single column.)

We attribute our great diversity in this area to almost 50% of the homes are 
long term rentals which allow for more non-family adults (often those not able 
to buy a house) to live here.

Kevin 
****************
Kevin Wolf
N Street Cohousing Community member
724 N St, Davis, CA  95616
530-758-4211
kjwolf [at] dcn.davis.ca.us

To download my facilitation manual or other material on 
consensus decision making, visit http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/go/kjwolf

_______________________________________________
Cohousing-L mailing list
Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org  Unsubscribe  and other info:
http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L