Cohousing-L Mailing List: Wednesday, 10/30: Join CohoUS for our Lessons Learned from Urban Cohousing in South Korea and Belgium Event

[Carolyn Pruitt (carolyn]

Hi everyone,


What lessons can we learn from cohousing communities abroad?


On Wednesday, 10/30 at 4pm MT, Schemata Workshop’s Grace Kim will share 
examples, insights, and best practices from her experiences visiting more than 
a dozen cohousing communities in Seoul and nine in Belgium.


For the past decade, the City of Seoul has supported social housing initiatives 
to create community-led housing – including cohousing. This has led to a rapid 
uptick in cohousing and many of these are small urban communities of 6-9 
households. As an opportunity for homeownership in an expensive city, these 
homes are sought after. But their appeal has more to do with the sense of 
community and enrichment to daily life that can be found in these communities.


In the small nation of Belgium (12 million people in an area the size of the 
state of Maryland), a single developer has built more than 15 communities in 
the past 15 years and has another 8 in the works. Some of them are small (6-9 
homes) and others are larger (18-30 homes), and all of them more compact and 
well-appointed than their American counterparts.


Learn how cohousing communities in these areas took lessons from the US and 
applied them in different ways to adapt to their locales and see what we can 
learn from them in return!


Register for the event here: 
https://cohousinginstitute.org/product/lessons-learned-from-urban-cohousing/


Email us at cohousingassociationofus [at] gmail.com for any questions. We look 
forward to seeing you!


Best,

Carolyn Pruitt

www.cohousing.org<http://www.cohousing.org/>



Carolyn Pruitt
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