Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: making cohousing affordable (Re: Cohousing-L Digest, Vol 252, Issue 20)

[Kate C (katetx2001]

Sharon,
I’m sorry that it sounds like maybe TV is a challenge for youngs and olds to 
participate in your community, and of course the bedroom loft design of most 
tiny homes may be a critical impediment for some elders.

Here in Austin, there is a tiny home community that helps provide stable 
shelter for people without homes. The homes are quite spare, and all facilities 
are in a shared common house. That doesn’t seem practical for a coho community, 
but personally, I don’t see why each unit would require its own laundry 
facilities, for example. (My apartment never had one.) And as many of you have 
shared stock pots, sanders, and books to keep personal possessions to a 
minimum. I wonder if anyone has an option for rentable personal storage rooms 
as well.

Sharon, I am a “collector” of the first order, but for me, I wonder if the 
advantages of living in community might not be incentive enough for 
disvestiture, especially if my beloved things (eg books) were not disposed of, 
but being loved by others as well.

Looking forward to more of this conversation and how communities think about 
affordability, tiny houses, and use of personal and communal space.
Does this bear on buy-in expenses at all?

I am ever so slowly trying to figure out whether cohousing would work for me, 
and these conversations are valuable and interesting. Thanks.

🏳️‍🌈 Kate C 
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> On Jan 26, 2025, at 8:16 PM, cohousing-l-request [at] cohousing.org wrote:
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