Keryn Curtis, October 28, 2020
Cohousing? Before talking about what cohousing IS, it is important to be very clear about what it ISN’T. Cohousing is NOT a 21st century name for a commune or a kibbutz or a student share house or whatever concept might spring unbidden to your mind’s eye. Nup. Let’s be clear up front. Unlike a commune or sometimes a co-op structure, cohousing community members do not share personal income as part of the model. It’s not a shared economy in that sense.
Cohousing describes a housing model (as in ‘a type of place where people live’, like freestanding houses, adjoined houses, apartments, duplexes, units etc etc) where a group of people intentionally agree to work together to create a place where they can all live close to one another – independently in their own separate ‘homes’ – but sharing certain things as part of a broader community venture
It’s co-housing if… read the blog in full and browse the website Agency Cohousing and Community.
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