This talk is wonderful. The strength of co-housing is deeply aligned with our best natural instincts. There is a natural desire to co-operate and co-habitate and this talk brings alive the power of responding to that natural inclination. I felt informed and supported by this talk, but never pushed or lectured to. GREAT talk. Best, Dorothy Fadiman from Menlo Park, California.
I had doubts about the video. She didnt have visuals, her body language was stagnant BUT ouuvv boy this was one of the best cohousing talks I have ever seen! Congrads and thanks Erica, live long and prosper.
THE GOLDEN GIRLS PHENOMENON is most likely to be what is set for our future due to the modern times and several crisis going on and ups and downs of the real estate market. I personal would love to share a house 🏡 with fellow elders in about 30 years time. It's healthy and much safer than living alone. Loneliness kills.
Loved it. Simple and effective solutions are being considered here. Solutions that change humanity as a whole. The part where she mentions interpersonal connections spoke out to me because it’s something that is rapidly degrading with a system that encourages individualism over community. We cannot sustain individuality as a population, and I think this ties in with human-caused environmental problems, where we can easily understand that it’s a problem but we either ignore or deny the problems based on the reality of having to do whatever is needed to support the individual. What co-housing essentially does is turns a group of individuals into a single, operating individual. No component works if one component does not work, and although this may be impossible to completely achieve, the more advocacy for this concept, the more acceptance humanity as a whole will be toward working together to do its part in saving ourselves from ourselves.
in Pakistan we call it living in a mohallah. In my village around 5000 People live and we are related to eachother one way or the other. We know each other atleast by weekly friday Prayer Place (Masjid)
This is real good. The important thing is community, not necessary co-housing, but co-housing is a form of community and community is important. There are probably other ways to create community, and I suppose you could have co-housing without a good community, always arguing, bad management, similar to Homeowner's Association Boards in Condo housing that make bad decision for the community. Also what is the communal fee you have to pay, she didn't say what it costs for the community house upkeep. She apparently lives in a nice one though, but imagine if you kept Kosher, or had a peanut allergy, or had to avoid sugar etc. and couldn't eat with everyone else. Not for everyone, but I would live in this one if I could. Sounds like a good one. I agree it is not utopia, but it is again a example of community and community is important.
Many thanks. What a wonderful, beautifully presented talk on an ever-timely topic. (It brought to mind some of the housing solutions for older people that Atul Gawande, MD, discusses in "Being Mortal.") May we see more of these creative solutions become realities.
Sadly this world only seems open to the well-heeled. Poor people wish we could have community too. I don't want enforced communitarianism but a spontaneous gathering of people desiring community sounds like a great positive to me.
We are poor, but co-house. We bought a run down house on the edge of town with a $700/mo mortgage, we put the girls in one room, the boys in another, myself and husband in a third, a friend in the fourth, a couple in the family room, and another couple in an rv in the driveway. We have evening meals together, have a private messenger chat group for the house where we announce the morning coffee with a new gif each day, and we share two cars between the four "families". The kids are taught to respect all grown ups and we tag team to make sure needs are met. We have our drama, but rule #1 Is we talk about our problems and it serves us well. We also converted the garage into a forge and the old closed in porch into a workshop for creating items for each of our businesses. It's fun and we live on very little money.
@@erincrary3625 That is wonderful! I wish you had a channel. I am dying for something like this for myself. It's become so difficult to make ends meet, even when employing as many homesteading skills as possible.
I really enjoyed this compelling presentation about cohousing. I am hoping that we use Sociocracy as a governance practice it at Prairie Hill Cohousing in Iowa City, Iowa, to help us ease through those times of disagreement.
Sounds great on paper but I find it naive not to acknowledge the pitfalls of some human behavior where people would just ride on the coattails of other people’s labor.
This talk is wonderful. The strength of co-housing is deeply aligned with our best natural instincts. There is a natural desire to co-operate and co-habitate and this talk brings alive the power of responding to that natural inclination. I felt informed and supported by this talk, but never pushed or lectured to. GREAT talk. Best, Dorothy Fadiman from Menlo Park, California.
I had doubts about the video. She didnt have visuals, her body language was stagnant BUT ouuvv boy this was one of the best cohousing talks I have ever seen! Congrads and thanks Erica, live long and prosper.
The way we were.....and could be again.
What a fantastic commentary on co-housing. Erica's presentation was beautiful. Isobel Kemper
THE GOLDEN GIRLS PHENOMENON is most likely to be what is set for our future due to the modern times and several crisis going on and ups and downs of the real estate market. I personal would love to share a house 🏡 with fellow elders in about 30 years time. It's healthy and much safer than living alone. Loneliness kills.
Loved it. Simple and effective solutions are being considered here. Solutions that change humanity as a whole. The part where she mentions interpersonal connections spoke out to me because it’s something that is rapidly degrading with a system that encourages individualism over community. We cannot sustain individuality as a population, and I think this ties in with human-caused environmental problems, where we can easily understand that it’s a problem but we either ignore or deny the problems based on the reality of having to do whatever is needed to support the individual.
What co-housing essentially does is turns a group of individuals into a single, operating individual. No component works if one component does not work, and although this may be impossible to completely achieve, the more advocacy for this concept, the more acceptance humanity as a whole will be toward working together to do its part in saving ourselves from ourselves.
Amen
...I don't know if it would work. But it sounds good, and they've got good intentions. But I don't know... It sounds like commune...
in Pakistan we call it living in a mohallah. In my village around 5000 People live and we are related to eachother one way or the other. We know each other atleast by weekly friday Prayer Place (Masjid)
Ahmed Naeem I wish I could live in the villages my grandparents were from in Punjab
This is real good. The important thing is community, not necessary co-housing, but co-housing is a form of community and community is important. There are probably other ways to create community, and I suppose you could have co-housing without a good community, always arguing, bad management, similar to Homeowner's Association Boards in Condo housing that make bad decision for the community. Also what is the communal fee you have to pay, she didn't say what it costs for the community house upkeep. She apparently lives in a nice one though, but imagine if you kept Kosher, or had a peanut allergy, or had to avoid sugar etc. and couldn't eat with everyone else. Not for everyone, but I would live in this one if I could. Sounds like a good one. I agree it is not utopia, but it is again a example of community and community is important.
thanks for sharing this talk -and the Commons. It is the real deal, I loved visiting this spring!
Many thanks. What a wonderful, beautifully presented talk on an ever-timely topic. (It brought to mind some of the housing solutions for older people that Atul Gawande, MD, discusses in "Being Mortal.") May we see more of these creative solutions become realities.
She's fantastic, what an inspiring and well communicated presentation
Sadly this world only seems open to the well-heeled. Poor people wish we could have community too. I don't want enforced communitarianism but a spontaneous gathering of people desiring community sounds like a great positive to me.
We are poor, but co-house. We bought a run down house on the edge of town with a $700/mo mortgage, we put the girls in one room, the boys in another, myself and husband in a third, a friend in the fourth, a couple in the family room, and another couple in an rv in the driveway. We have evening meals together, have a private messenger chat group for the house where we announce the morning coffee with a new gif each day, and we share two cars between the four "families". The kids are taught to respect all grown ups and we tag team to make sure needs are met. We have our drama, but rule #1 Is we talk about our problems and it serves us well. We also converted the garage into a forge and the old closed in porch into a workshop for creating items for each of our businesses. It's fun and we live on very little money.
@@erincrary3625 That is wonderful! I wish you had a channel. I am dying for something like this for myself. It's become so difficult to make ends meet, even when employing as many homesteading skills as possible.
@@erincrary3625 Thank you for sharing!
I really enjoyed this compelling presentation about cohousing. I am hoping that we use Sociocracy as a governance practice it at Prairie Hill Cohousing in Iowa City, Iowa, to help us ease through those times of disagreement.
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Sounds great on paper but I find it naive not to acknowledge the pitfalls of some human behavior where people would just ride on the coattails of other people’s labor.
Is this the chick from Rise of the humanoids?
Video name : Co-housing-Community at its Best
Real name : How to be communist ?
I didn't get that message from the talk.