Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: multigenerational diversity

[Rob Sandelin (floriferous]

My question would be, how many families with children live in one bedroom
units? My experience is that very few  if any families with kids choose one
bedroom units. That seems to run pretty consistent around all the cohousing
projects I have visited. That was my point. Of course singles can live in
any other configuration, but parents with kids tend to want, a minimum of 2
bedrooms. So in your project, how many of one bedroom units are home to
parents with kids?

Rob Sandelin
Sky Valley Environments  <http://www.nonprofitpages.com/nica/SVE.htm>
Field skills training for student naturalists
Floriferous [at] msn.com


-----Original Message-----
From: cohousing-l-admin [at] cohousing.org
[mailto:cohousing-l-admin [at] cohousing.org]On Behalf Of Marian Shostrom
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 8:56 PM
To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
Subject: [C-L]_multigenerational diversity



I have to jump in and refute Rob's notion that one-bedroom units attract
families without children.  When we joined Pleasant Hill Cohousing (before
being built, but after design), we were interested in a 3- or 4-bedroom
unit, and were on the waiting list.  At the time, in the four-bedroom units
were: 6 couples w/ith no children; one single; one family with two children,
and one couple with child soon to be away at college. The truth is that it
was hard for young families to afford the larger units. (this, of course,
may be a California thing).  After move in we have:
5 couples with no children, 9 2-parent families with children, 5 single moms
with children, and 13 singles.  We have a nice diversity of age, which I
think we all like.
The key to it all is flexibility, especially close to move in time.

Marian Shostrom
Pleasant Hill Cohousing





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