New Ground is the UK's first cohousing for 26 older women, and they like it.
#AlternativeHousing #women
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/aug/24/we-have-brothers-sons-lovers-but-they-cant-live-here-the-happy-home-shared-by-26-women

RT @tmccormick
@andersem @GovTinaKotek OR's landmark housing legislation could open up abundance & innovation, & even help rapidly build permanent #alternativehousing for/with the unhoused, if guided: as seen in KPTV report today w/#CascadiaClusters I work with https://www.kptv.com/2023/03/29/oregon-governor-signs-new-200-million-homeless-spending-package-into-law/. #HB2001 (#OHNA) + #HB5019 #orleg https://twitter.com/andersem/status/1641164940290686976

RT @tmccormick
@andersem @GovTinaKotek OR's landmark housing legislation could open up abundance & innovation, & even help rapidly build permanent #alternativehousing for/with the unhoused, if guided: as seen in KPTV report today w/#CascadiaClusters I work with https://www.kptv.com/2023/03/29/oregon-governor-signs-new-200-million-homeless-spending-package-into-law/. #HB2001 (#OHNA) + #HB5019 #orleg https://twitter.com/andersem/status/1641164940290686976

Does anyone have connections to folks well versed in #cooperativeownedhousing ? A close friend of mine is doing research on alternative housing (shipping containers, off grid, cooperative housing, group mortgages, etc).

Connections appreciated!

#coophousing #alternativehousing #research

#Introduction Housing advocate, designer, researcher, writer, & project developer based in Portland, Oregon, & N. California. Director of HousingAlternatives.net, writing/editing Village Buildings: West Coast Housing From the Bottom Up; & Apology for the Builder, on speculative & terraced #housing from 17thC London to today. US/UK dual citizen.
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