Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Collective housing

[Bobi Wilson (bobi.scott]

There is an article in the NY Times today about housing for elderly called The 
Green House Project.  It diverges from the traditional  nursing home care of 
long linoleum hallways to something like the collective housing being discussed 
here: individual rooms with a bath and shared kitchen.  It's an interesting 
article.  Putting the humaness ahead of institutional-ness.  It's too long an 
article to paste here but I could send it to you if interested.  You might be 
able to access the Times site 
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/23/national/23nurse.html?th&emc=th   but it will 
likely require that you sign up.  Should you decide to there is no charge and 
no trash emails that come with it.
Bobi
Yellow Plum Commons 
SE Washington State  


hi, all,

let me once again throw in my five cent question since three of you just
wrote about funding/money: there is a great need for collective housing
(not commune, not special needs) for working adults that provides private
suites w/ collective kitchen/common areas --has anyone heard of such
places other than the Friends Meeting Houses which have this model or how
we might creatively bring together funds to build such a place?

thanks, bye, Alberta (East Somerville, Massachusetts)