Monday, May 30, 2011

Living Cooperatively: Affordable Housing

Its an idea worth exploring but stand back and listen to all the reasons as why it cannot be done .... well not in Tasmania.

Living Cooperatively: Affordable Housing – Sustainable Development - a Swedish model – has aroused quite a bit of interest, and there were similar ideas on display at Melbourne’s Sustainable Living Festival.

What’s happening in Tasmania? Not much but there is some cooperative hosing in Hobart yet nothing springs to mind for Launceston.

Sustainable Living In Intentional Communities (SLIC) is a group auspiced by the Sustainable Living Foundation (SLF) as it works towards a society that includes:

* Cohousing, where residents own their own home, but regularly share in community activities including common meals, centred around a community house. Cohousing communities are designed to address and encourage social interaction and ... click here to go to the full story

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