Cohousing-L Mailing List: Philadelphia CoHousing

[Tobia,Blaise (tobiabj]

Greetings to Tom and Peggy on Madison Square in Philadelphia. I’ve often looked 
at Madison Square - or the similar St. Alban’s Place nearby (location of the 
Harrison Ford character’s home in the movie “The Sixth Sense”) - as having 
great potential for urban co-housing. But it seems to me that houses on either 
block only come on the market occasionally (unless I’m mistaken) and it would 
take quite awhile to acquire enough of them to make a viable co-housing 
community possible. I’m a veteran of several earlier attempts at co-housing in 
Philadelphia (going back to 1994) and would be happy to be a resource. 
Currently my wife and I settle for a wonderful “co-yarding” community in 
Philadelphia, where six row houses share a common back yard and maintain it 
cooperatively. — Blaise Tobia