Collaborative Living at Narara
NewCoh | Collaborative Housing - building a great life together |
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https://www.newcoh.org/join-us A 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 list of resources and links on the last page. | https://www.collaborativehousing.org.au/stories-cooperatives This is a 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. |
Creating Community through Co housing | Collaborative Housing and the New Economy (Matthew Daly) |
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/blueprintforliving/cohousing/7229188 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/ | Daly - NENA2020 - Collaborative Housing and the New Economy in Australia (final).pdf Matthew Daly presented this talk at the New Economy Network Australia (NENA) Conference on Sunday 22 November 2020 and has kindly shared his slides with us. His presentation provide and excellent overview of various collaborative housing models, the principles behind collaborative housing, the pros and cons, and how government could help by showcasing etc. It also contains an extensive list of references with links. |
