Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Ownership not necessary / Goodenough Comm.

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Fred H Olson wrote:

> There is nothing about the definition of cohousing that
> precludes something other than the owner occupied model.  A housing coop
> could be cohousing if the goals of and facilities for community building
> are priorities for coop members.  Cohousing could be more modest than most
> US communites. 

The Goodenough Community has long been a non-residential community in
Seattle. They are now building a 20 unit residential community with a
community center - Ravenna Commons.  It will be organized as a coop.  Tho
they may not use the term "cohousing" to describe Ravenna Commons it
sounds like it would fall within my definition of cohousing ( with other
special characteristics also).  The units will be relatively small and
therefore presumably relatively low in cost. 

For more information see their web site:
http://www.goodenough.org   or the
article "On The Land At Last" in 
Communities magazine #116 Fall/Winter 2002  http://www.ic.org

Fred

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