Cohousing in the News
The Pacific Northwest Inlander
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New Living Arrangements Can Bring Us Closer TogetherSpokane Cohousing group member Mariah McKay writes on the benefits cohousing communities.
"With the high cost of childcare and most families earning two incomes, a wrap-around community of trusted adults is an attractive amenity to many parents. Highly functioning cohousing communities organize shared dinners up to five nights a week. While America has a proud "Do It Yourself" tradition, many are rediscovering that "Doing It Together" can be more realistic and sustainable, given our demanding modern lives." |
The New York TImes
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Modern Housing with Village Virtues"Working families in the United States have many struggles today: expensive child care, not enough time to cook healthy meals, disconnection from nature, a sense of social isolation - what the sociologist Robert Putnam famously called “bowling alone." Older Americans, a booming population, often end up segregated generationally and in dire need of care and companionship. What if there was a potential salve to all of these struggles? One that was introduced to Americans 25 years ago, but hasn’t yet gone to scale?"
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PBS Newhour
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Cohousing Communities Help Prevent Social Isolation"You live in kind of a small village. You know everybody around you, and you share as much as possible. So you are very close neighbors, and you are kind of depending on each other, but you’re not obligated to any strict rules. It’s kind of like everyone’s a parent, and everybody will take care of the kid if there’s something wrong and the parents aren’t there. I think it’s just very safe."
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ABC 10 News
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Parents Rave About Cohousing Community in Northern California"Imagine a community where neighbors know each other, kids play outside together until it’s time for dinner…and when that time comes, dinner is cooked and ready on the table. It sounds like the suburban dream of a 1950’s sitcom. But residents in a Northern California cohousing community say this is their daily experience."
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