CoHousing – live in community
Have you ever needed someone to take care of your children, someone you trust? 🙂
Have you ever taken care of a couple’s children, because that couple had an unforeseen event?
How many times have you thought about having someone do the food shopping for your meals?
Or, you already felt that you had the strength to help someone else shop for your home.
Have you ever thought that sometimes you need someone to make you a good meal?
Others, do you feel safe to give someone a great meal?
Ever needed a car and yours wasn’t available?
Have you ever give a ride to someone?
Living in community is having an answer to these questions, and on the other hand feeling fulfilled in the daily mutual help with someone in your life.
In a more theoretical definition
(McCamant, Kathryn; Durrett, Charles)
Cohousing it is an intentional community of private homes clustered around shared space. Each attached or single family home has traditional amenities including a private kitchen. Shared spaces typically feature a common home, which can include a large kitchen and dining room, laundry, and recreational spaces. Shared outdoor space may include parking, walks, open space and gardens. Neighbors also share features like tools and lawn mowers, for instance..
Families have their own independent finances and private lives, but together with neighbors they can plan and manage community activities and shared spaces. The legal structure is typically a homeowners association or housing cooperative. Community activities can include regularly scheduled shared meals, meetings, and weekdays. Neighbors should gather for parties, games, movies or other events. Cohabitation facilitates the formation of clubs, the organization of child and elderly care and the sharing of rides..
Cohabitation facilitates interaction between neighbors and thus provides social, practical, economic and environmental benefits.
CoHousing Coabitar Residencial Intergeracional 