Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Condos & Cohousing

[Kay Wilson Fisk (kwwilson]

We are a 5 year old condo cohousing community with 25 households:

        Singles         Couples         With Kids       Total # of
kids
        13              12              8               14 - 16 (kids
here part time)

One thing that has made a difference for us is that we have seven
rental units. Of the 14-16 total kid population, 8-10 kids live in
rental units. 

We have been talking about reducing the number of rental units
allowed, but are coming to realize that they account for most of our
young families, and thus, our age diversity. We are still considering
the trade-offs.

Kay
Meadow Wood Condo
Bremerton, WA

-----Original Message-----
From: cohousing-l-bounces+kwwilson=bartcommunity.org [at] cohousing.org
[mailto:cohousing-l-bounces+kwwilson=bartcommunity.org [at] cohousing.org]
On Behalf Of Sharon Villines
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 11:26 AM
To: Cohousing-L
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Condos & Cohousing

On 4 Apr 2011, at 2:14 PM, R Philip Dowds wrote:

> This is not an easy one to solve.  Even if one believes in "senior 
> cohousing" (as an alternative to multi-generational), one's
community 
> can rapidly get TOO senior.

These women were not too senior - their partners are just less senior,
as in dead.

In cohousing, as the women who are already in cohousing age and the
men die younger, and then older women move in, the community can
quickly become top and gender heavy. The problem is then compounded
since people like to live with people like themselves. Keeping
diversity is not so easy.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org

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