Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Attracting families to already existing cohousing communities

[Michael Barrett (mbarrett]

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From: "Silas Langley" <silaslangley [at] yahoo.com>
To: <cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 7:25 PM
Subject: [C-L]_ Attracting families to already existing cohousing 
communities


> I'm a member of a cohousing community in Portland, Oregon.  We have few 
> kids here (two of them are mine) but would like to attract more families 
> with kids.  There is currently a great family home for sale in our 
> community.  And another one will be on the market soon.  The community 
> would really like more kids and the community is in a family friendly area 
> of town.  We've taken some steps to make our community more attractive to 
> families, such as building a new play structure and holding many 
> kid-friendly events throughout the year.  But we're still not getting many 
> bites.
>
> Are there any other communities out there with a similar situation?  Are 
> there any communities out there that had few kids but managed to turn that 
> around and gain more families with kids?  I would love some advice or 
> recommendations from others out there on what steps we as a community 
> might take to encourage more families to consider buying a home here.  It 
> really is a great place for kids!  Perhaps we haven't yet considered 
> something.
>
> Silas Langley
> Cascadia Commons Cohousing
>
>
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