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Cohousing news, February 2025
by Alex King 05 Feb '25

05 Feb '25

I hope everyone had a relaxing break over summer, I certainly did. After little activity in January, February has the potential for a number of field trips to potential sites, to assess their suitability for cohousing. Late last year we found out about a potential site in Bellknowles. The site consists of an existing villa and land as well as three adjoining sections, some of it steep. The site is adjacent to the town belt (as Toiora is.) So far we've assessed half a dozen potential sites, and from what I've seen this may be the best of them, and the owners are sympathetic to the idea of cohousing. We plan to visit this site tomorrow at 1.30pm, please join us if you can. Access is via Ross Street but parking is limited. We plan to car-pool from Toiora, meet here (unit no3 at Toiora, on Alva Street) at 1pm. If you prefer to go direct, contact me and I'll pass on instructions. See you tomorrow! Thanks, Alex

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Cohousing news, December 2024
by Alex King 18 Dec '24

18 Dec '24

Hi everyone, It was great to see you at Toiora last Sunday. A big thank you to Catherine who gave us a presentation on cohousing and the establishment of Toiora. Also thanks to Maria who shared some images of other cohousing communities. I hope we can send out this newsletter once per month. I'd also envisage the group will starting regular meetings at some point. Could you please reply and let us know how you'd like to be involved? * If you'd like to join a regular in-person meeting (from next year) * If you'd like to join online discussion (email and/or chat) * If you'd like to join field-trips to potential co-housing sites in Otepoti/Dunedin Also, we have a survey where you can indicate what type of housing situation you prefer. It's not an especially /quick/ survey, I'd encourage you to put aside 30 minutes or so to complete it. It's intended to help you reflect on what type of housing setup you'd like. Fill in the survey here on sandstorm <https://sandstorm.linuxworks.nz/shared/ojRUmL0CH-JzfDZsaZN_Xy3Y9wPIdfsDf3kr…>. To recap the meeting, Catherine's talk covered some of the principles of cohousing as distilled by Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett in their book Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities <https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8533733-creating-cohousing>. This is a great book to get up to speed with cohousing in Scandinavia and North America. There are copies in the public library and a couple here at Toiora if you don't want to buy one! (There are also lots of cohousing resources available online, for example on the Couhousing US site <https://www.cohousing.org/>. There is also a (semi-academic, co-operative housing focused) Aotearoa national coho hui <https://www.cohohui.com/> happening in Christchurch next April.) Kovido told us about the property at 462 Waitati Valley Road and talked about a vision of a community living there with a peaceful rural outlook including the river running through the property, as well as potential for a forestry venture and other community-linked schemes. If you're interested in visiting the site email me and I'll pass it on to Kovido. Maria showed some images of cohousing communities in Europe. For example, see some examples Maria shared from Vandkunsten Architects <https://vandkunsten.com/en/projects?term=co-housing>. Maria was keen for us to see a variety of different cohousing types that have been built before we start to plan what /we/ want. Please let me know if you want to go on the email and/or chat app. Please also fill in our survey <https://sandstorm.linuxworks.nz/shared/ojRUmL0CH-JzfDZsaZN_Xy3Y9wPIdfsDf3kr…>. Thanks, Alex

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Re: Hi, this is a test
by Alex King 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

Another test. I'm trying not to get the footers on these emails On 16/12/24 20:41, Alex King wrote: > This is another test. > > Sorry for the noise Kathy, I'm trying to get things working right. > > Thanks > > On 16/12/24 20:35, Alex King wrote: >> Testing the cohousing-announce list. So far just myself and Kathy >> are in it. >> >> Thanks, >> Alex >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Cohousing_announce mailing list -- cohousing_announce(a)list.king.net.nz >> To unsubscribe send an email to >> cohousing_announce-leave(a)list.king.net.nz > _______________________________________________ > Cohousing_announce mailing list -- cohousing_announce(a)list.king.net.nz > To unsubscribe send an email to cohousing_announce-leave(a)list.king.net.nz This is the last line. Alex

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