Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Retrofit cohousing list / at conference

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

I'm still looking for more suggestions about retrofit cohousing
communities. Thanks for the suggestions I have received. I've
incorporated them as well as other details in the list in an improved
format with links to details for most communities at ic.org.

The revised list is accessable via:
http://mn.cohousing.org/retrofit/

Anyone know of others?  Outside the US?

We are still pondering the retrofit terminology ... again.
Here is my current thinking that would cover most approaches
tho there are plenty that are various hybrids of these:

type        subtype                            example
retrofit    over time in existing housing      N Street Cohousing
retrofit    at once   in existing housing      San Mateo Ecovillage
retrofit    of a non-housing structure         Swans Market

    (Note that   we could add: )
New built   at once                            most US communities
New built   over time (Lot Development model)  Sharingwood

Also note that the current Status (without retrofitting) would still
be relevant to the above (forming... completed)

For the workshop we are mostly interested in
retrofit    over time in existing housing  like N Street Cohousing

Fred

On Sun, 22 Mar 2015, Fred H Olson wrote:

> Kevin Wolf and I will be doing a workshop at the May conference about
> retrofit cohousing which has been discussed here many times over the
> years. (NOTE: by "retrofit cohousing" we mean existing housing that is
> evolving so residents relate like in cohousing - NOT reconstruction of
> a building to form cohousing.)
>
> In preparation I am trying to put together a list of retrofit cohousing
> communities.  (Unforunately not all are listed in the directory or are
> not listed as "retrofitting".  Below is my current list of existing
> communities including some that resemble or incorporate some retrofit
> cohousing.  Do you know of others?

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Fred H. Olson  Minneapolis,MN 55411  USA        (near north Mpls)
     Email:        fholson at cohousing.org      612-588-9532
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