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CLaN Resource Page (Public Access) - This Page is Under Development...

This site provides links to select Narara Ecovillage resources and to collaborative living and co-housing information previously shared through the Narara Ecovillage Friends Slack app.

Please note that some materials on this site are copyright.

The Narara Ecovillage is not endorsing any particular model or businesses listed on this site but is simply providing links for your convenience.

To find out more about Collaborative Living at Narara (CLaN) or to join the Slack site please contact... (who is the contact? which email should I include?)

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Narara Ecovillage Resources

Frequently Asked Questions
NEV Building & Landscape Standards Home
Creative Financing - Deb and Vanessa (August 2020)
Small and Tiny Equals Affordable living- Jazz and Chris
Talking about Tiny Houses with Chris (May 2020)
NEV Stage 2 Flyover December 2020 by Julian

Architectural Designs by Graham Hunt

for CLaN sub-group

(this material is copyright)

If you'd like to use any of the following plans for a full build application then please contact Graham Hunt at DHW for the copyright:

Large House Concept 1_060621
Large House Concept 2_090621

https://www.chrysaliscohousing.org/https://www.chrysaliscohousing.org/https://www.ic.org/ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jul/30/were-the-anti-real-estate-agent-inside-sydneys-first-built-to-rent-apartment-complex?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Co-housing and Collaborative Living

Websites

Collaborative Housing - building a better life together : Web resources created by the UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures which is packed full of case studies, information about the legal side of things and other resources

. There are case studies of three ‘building groups’ include Nightingale 1 in inner Melbourne to be found under the ‘Stories’ tab

Building Groups involve a collective of prospective owner-occupiers coming together to have input into the design of a ‘development’. There are a number of ways this might occur, ranging from groups of friends coming together to develop, to strangers being brought together by an architect or construction company (or ecovillage) who is facilitating a development.

Cohousing Australia: promotes collective models of housing, housing diversity, and housing choice. Its mission is to create and expand the sector, network and conditions necessary to make cohousing an option for all interested.
New Economy Network Australia (NENA) Housing Week - 7-11 2021: Recordings and PowerPoint presentations from practitioners and researchers from dozens of organisations, who came together to discuss social justice and environmental sustainability issues of housing and human settlements in Australia.
Foundation for Intentional Community: online courses, resources, international directory of communities

Radio, Podcasts, Videos

Creating Community through Co-Housing: ABC Radio National’s Blue Print for Living interviewed Chuck Durrett who first coined the term cohousing.

He first came across the concept in Denmark, its modern birthplace and then kickstarted the first cohousing projects in the US. On his first visit to Australia, ABC radio talked to him about cohousing movement and its contribution to the challenges we face as a society. And take a walk around one of Australia's early cohousing inspired eco-communities, Adelaide's Christie Walk, to hear first-hand from the residents what it's like to live so closely with your neighbours you even split the bills.

Chuck Durret’s website for The Cohousing Company in Nevada http://www.cohousingco.com/
Share Housing with Friends or Family Later in life: ABC radio program / podcast about sharing accommodation in later life and across generations.
The Best of Both Worlds - Cohousing's Promise: film explores the concept of co-housing as expressed through first-hand observations of residents of four co housing communities in the United States accompanied by observations by architect Charles Durrett, who brought the concept to the US from Denmark.

Books, Articles

Creating Cohousing - building sustainable communities by Charles Durrett and Kathryn McCamant
The

Senior Cohousing Handbook

senior cohousing handbook - 2nd Edition: A community approach to independent living by Charles Durrett
The future of community housing includes social solutions: Community housing can also alleviate social problems, says Nicola Lemon of Hume Community Housing
We’re the anti-real estate agent: inside Sydney's first built-to-rent apartment complex:

in Australia’s rental model dominated almost entirely by mum and dad investors, Liv Indigo is putting power back in the hands of renters
Eco-Homes for all: why the socio-cultural matters in encouraging eco-building: particularly interested in those who collectively self-build homes based on ecological principles and within a small budget – self-build eco-homes often in eco-communities
Tiny house regulations in Australia - what you need to know (July 2020)
Life in a tiny house: what's it like and how can it be made better? (Feb 2019, VincentCare)
Norwegian

Cohousing Project

cohousing project is designed around 'gaining by sharing': early community engagement in the planning and development phases sets this cohousing project apart

Models and related enterprises

LILAC Co-housing Model: low impact living affordable community
The Sun Villages Model: mixes those with money to invest (including super funds) with residents with capital to bring and allows for all to co-own their home, no matter their financial situation
The Australian Community Land Trust Manual by Louise Crabtree et al (2013)

Property Collective: a citizen-led housing model for building homes at cost

Community Led Homes (UK): types of community led housing, land trust model etc

PodProperty: specialises in co-ownership agreements for people who buy property together as tenants in common

Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) - ecovillage design cards and GEN Map of Regeneration
Can't Buy Property? a new and revolutionary model of housing: by Stina Kerans
Property Collectives: a citizen-led housing model for building homes at cost
PodProperty: specialises in co-ownership agreements for people who buy property together as tenants in common

Some Australian examples

NewCoh:

sustainable neighbourhood underway in inner Newcastle

(NSW( of architect designed apartments and townhouses with community facilities and gardens that you co-own.

NewCoh describe their co-housing initiative as “a Scandinavian way of combining private and shared space that’s designed to enrich everyone’s living experience”. They are working with a forward thinking construction company who will buy the land and sell the complex ‘off the plan’ to NewCoh members before building commences. The website conveys a lot of information is a very efficient way and there is a PDF of their 14-page members handbook which also has a good

Members handbook contains list of resources and links on

the

last page.
Christie Walk: an inspiring multi-residential infill development on the edge of the Adelaide CBD, accommodating 27 dwellings and approximately 40 residents on a 2,000m2 lot. Dwelling types include apartments, town house and detached cottages.
Chrystalis Co-Housing: project in the Sunshine Coast

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