Some history on Co-housing
What is co-housing?
The principle of co-housing (or collaborative housing) is simple. You live together with a group of people that are not necessarily your family or relatives and you share certain areas of your home with them. You share certain resources (e.g. space, food, energy, green areas, cars etc.) and certain parts of your life (e.g. free time, weekends, cleaning, celebrations).
There are many Co-Housing initiatives in Europe, America, Australia and many other parts of the world. Key challenge of this approach is to create a Win-Win-Win for all people involved in the project. This way of living is not only interesting for individuals – especially families with children and seniors can support from this type of living environment where a community supports each other in daily life.
In Belgium you can already find some co-housings although larger scale co-housing is still a new concept.
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September 16th, 2009 at 1:08 am
Great description of how to build a community / village … probably the most natural way to live for humans, which always lived in small tribes until very recently.
Interesting also the fact that it worked for decades for at least some of them.
Critical: to bring together the right people with the right attitude and financing capability in the right place … not so easy …