#1565 Co-Housing Builds Community and Fights Loneliness
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 10 June 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 6/10/2023
Today, we take a look at the emerging trend of various community housing styles people are using to build community, fight loneliness and lighten the load of everyday chores and tasks.
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SHOW NOTES
Trish is the owner of StorySpring Consulting and Director of Community Engagement at the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Social Work.
Ch. 2: Katie McCamant of CoHousing Solutions Part 1 - Transforming Cities - Air Date 8-24-22
On this episode, I’m speaking with Katie McCamant, President at CoHousing Solutions. Katie brings the depth and diversity of her 35 years of experience as a developer, architect, and cohousing resident to benefit her clients.
Ch. 3: Cohousing communities help prevent social isolation - PBS Newshour - Air Date 2-12-17
Groups in Denmark and the U.S. are choosing to live in intentionally intergenerational communities, which emerged to strengthen social ties between aging seniors and their younger counterparts who are balancing work and family.
Ch. 4: Katie McCamant of CoHousing Solutions Part 2 - Transforming Cities - Air Date 8-24-22
Cohousing communities are collaborative neighborhoods created with intention and a little ingenuity.
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Ch. 7: Jack Kerouac's boarding house now co-living for creatives - Kirsten Dirksen - Air Date 11-7-20
Sara McEre bought the former 19th-century boarding house in San Luis Obispo (CA), it was rundown. Instead of converting it to apartments for a profit, she turned it into a communal living residence for 19 like-minded individuals.
Ch. 8: Microgrid energy and community cohousing - Local Zero - 5-4-22
We hear from Andy O’Brien from the Bristol Energy Cooperative, and Monica King from Bridport Cohousing in Dorset.
Ch. 9: Katie McCamant of CoHousing Solutions Part 3 - Transforming Cities - Air Date 8-24-22
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 12: Final comments on a couple of undervalued benefits of cohousing
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning best of the left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.0 | take a look at the emerging trend of various community housing styles people are using |
| 0:11.8 | to build community, fight loneliness and lighten the load of everyday chores and tasks. |
| 0:17.8 | Clips today include a TED X talk from Trish Becker Houghner, Transforming Cities, Local Zero, |
| 0:25.3 | the PBS NewsHour and the Foundation for Intentional Living with additional members only clips |
| 0:31.0 | from Kristen Dirkson, Local Zero and Transforming Cities. |
| 0:35.3 | It's the end of a long day of work. |
| 0:44.1 | You've come home to sit yourself in front of the TV. |
| 0:48.4 | Maybe you're even simultaneously scrolling on your phone. |
| 0:52.8 | You're either alone or sitting silently next to a loved one and still you have this ache. |
| 1:00.4 | This feeling that there just must be more to life than this. |
| 1:06.1 | My moment was sitting in the front of my suburban home looking out over a sprawling lawn |
| 1:13.3 | and into the darkened windows of a neighbor's house and it occurred to me that I had lived |
| 1:17.4 | there for two years but had never stepped foot inside a neighbor's house. |
| 1:22.4 | Not once. |
| 1:23.4 | It was my partner and I's first home and we were so excited to make it our own. |
| 1:28.8 | So excited that we ignored that hint of reluctance that we were feeling, that little voice that |
| 1:34.3 | said, are you sure this is what you want? |
| 1:37.9 | See I've lived communally for the majority of my adult life. |
| 1:41.6 | Many of those years spent outside of the U.S. and yet still at the age of 30, I've |
| 1:47.3 | too found myself caught up in the American dream, buying the biggest house that we could |
| 1:52.6 | afford because I thought that's what we were supposed to do. |
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