research-l Mailing List: Re: Welcoming 13 new folks to our (Cohousing Research Network) listserv!

[Belinda Milnes (Belinda.Milnes]

Hello,

Like fellow-new member Copia, I am developing a co-housing project in New Zealand for a group of friends and others where we can merrily ‘age in place’. We have just started construction of our common house on a semi-rural 7-acre site near Wellington and will have 25 homes when completed. (www.wellbornefarm.org)

 

We are currently working through the legal aspects of our co-housing community, which is a bit tricky!  I think there is much benefit in sharing the learnings from existing communities about what does and doesn’t need to be in purchase agreements and how to have rules that are flexible but preserve the character of the community.

 

I also work in government and am working to encourage planning laws to enable co-housing and other forms of innovative housing to flourish. Unfortunately in New Zealand we have housing shortages despite having a small population and plenty of land, with affordability being a growing issue.

 

Belinda Milnes

 

 

From: research-l [mailto:research-l-bounces+belinda.milnes=parliament.govt.nz [at] cohousingresearchnetwork.org] On Behalf Of Graham Meltzer
Sent: Sunday, 16 December 2018 4:10 PM
To: Belinda Milnes <Belinda.Milnes [at] parliament.govt.nz>
Subject: Re: [research-l] Welcoming 13 new folks to our (Cohousing Research Network) listserv!

 

Hi all

 

I'm a long-standing cohousing fan and advocate, and a researcher of same back in the 90s. Mine was probably one of the first doctoral research projects focused on cohousing, out of which came a book which some of you may have seen - Sustainable Community: Learning from the cohousing model (Trafford). I travelled extensively in the US and Canada back then and made many cohousing friends along the way, some of them researchers. So it's lovely to be back amongst you. I've been living in the Findhorn community for the last 12 years. 

 

All the best

Graham

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On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 8:01 PM Neil Planchon <neil [at] swansway.com> wrote:

Hello everyone (Now 118 of us!) and Happy December/Holidays.

As has been my custom, I am welcoming new folks to the list!

Janice Chen
Belinda Milnes
Graham Meltzer
Mel Stone
Dermot O’Reilly
Nicolas Francart
Almut Zieher
Linda Wilson
Kari Kalinich
Matt Daly
Nicolas Francart
Andreas Hatzimichai
George Lindsey

Welcome one and all.  We’d love to learn about you.  Please take a moment to introduce yourselves, tell us where you live, your interests and what connects you to Cohousing and the Cohousing Research Network.

We always love to hear what folks have interest in learning about and what you might be interested in contributing.

We look forward to hearing from you!
Neil and the Cohousing Research Network team
www.cohousingresearchnetwork.org



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