Cohousing-L Mailing List: Chuck Durrett on KALW Radio tonight Oct. 30th @ 7:30 PM Pacific

[Neil Planchon (neil]

Hello everyone,

Here's to all of you that are interested. Enjoy!

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On Monday, October 30th, 7:30PM-8:30PM (PT) on City Visions Radio  
91.7 FM KALW San Francisco:

A Place to Call Home: How is the Bay Area Facing the Housing Challenge?

When it comes to finding a place to live in the Bay Area, cost is the  
main concern. In one of the most expensive markets in the country,  
affordability continues to be a challenge despite predictions of a  
much-anticipated deceleration of housing prices.

Yet cost is not the only issue on the minds of those who call the Bay  
Area home. Some, regardless of their means, are placing equal weight  
on creating a sense of community where they live. Trying to combat  
the social isolation and alienation that can be prevalent in modern  
day American living, some people have been reinventing ways of living  
together that were once only the stuff of hippie lore. With an eye  
towards developing living spaces that are eco-friendly as well as  
just plain friendly, people, including a growing number of retiring  
baby boomers, are building intentional communities designed to be  
more enriching, supportive, and sustainable than more traditional set  
ups.

To understand how these communities work, we’ll take a look at two  
models: co-housing and cooperative living. Still worried about cost?  
We’ll also take a look at land trusts as a way to make home ownership  
possible for those with low to moderate income. And finally for you  
renters out there, we’ll explore whether home ownership should even  
be everyone’s housing goal.

Joining host Lauren Meltzer to discuss these issues and your  
questions are:

Sam Bernier, member, Cooperative Roots, www.cooperativeroots.org  
<http://www.cooperativeroots.org/>

Chuck Durrett, architect, author and founder of the co-housing  
movement in the United States, www.cohousing.org <http:// 
www.cohousing.org/>

Kenoli Oleari, Board Member, Northern California Land Trust,  
www.nclt.org <javascript:ol('http://www.nclt.org/');>  and Co- 
director, Neighborhood Assemblies Network, www.sfnan.org <http:// 
www.sfnan.org/>

Mary Frances Potter, author, We Rent in San Francisco,  
www.mfpotter.com <http://www.mfpotter.com/>

City Visions broadcasts throughout the Bay Area Monday evenings from  
7:30 PM to 8:30 PM Pacific Time on 91.7 FM KALW San Francisco.

Call in at 415.841.4134 or e-mail at feedback [at] cityvisionsradio.com  
<mailto:feedback [at] cityvisionsradio.com>

To access a live stream of the broadcast or to listen to archives of  
this and past shows, go to www.cityvisionsradio.com <http:// 
www.cityvisionsradio.com/>

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Neil Planchon
neil [at] cohousing.org - www.cohousing.org
Cohousing Association of the United States