Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Is in-house plumbing and electric a must?

[Kay Wilson Fisk (kwilsonfisk]

This is a fascinating concept: is it better to provide
housing with shared plumbing to decrease the homeless
population, or is it better to provide more comfort and
leave the homeless folks in the woods?

Personally, I would not consider living in housing without
plumbing and electricity--not, that is, unless I were
homeless.

It would be an interesting experiment to build half the
housing with plumbing and electricity, and the other half
without. Perhaps the second half could be designed in such a
way as to allow retrofitting of these utilities at a future
time if the concept proved to be a problem.

Kay

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Subject: [C-L]_ Is in-house plumbing and electric a must?


Diana just introduced me to Opportunity Village, and now I
see this link show up on my Facebook feed:
http://www.tentcityurbanism.com/2014/09/to-plumb-or-not-to-p
lumb.html .

Opportunity Village is a 30-unit community of 8x8 structures
that have no utility hookups. There is a shared central
facility with water and electricity. The group is looking to
build a new community ("Emerald Village"), and the town is
encouraging them to include electricity and plumbing in
these units.

So my question for the group: would you consider living in a
cohousing community where water and electricity were
provided only to the common house and not to the individual
units? This is interesting to me as way to reduce costs in
developing a cohousing community.

Thanks,

Dane Laverty
Roseville, CA
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