Often retirees wonder how they can include younger
people in their day-to-day life while maintaining a separate cohousing
community.
Retirement Cohousing Directory
Aging
Here Is Both Delightful and Graceful
Are
Rentals a Source of Income or Nuisance?
Attracting Younger People
Common House in Retirement Cohousing
Deciding
If Cohousing Is Your Correct Choice
Ecohousing:
A Green Retirement
Features of Common House
Finding DFW Cohousing Communities
Friction
Making Community Decision
Gardens
in Retirement Cohousing
How
Much Does It Cost?
Importance of Autos Recedes
Innumerable Benefits
of Cohousing
Locating Retirement Cohousing in
DFW
Near
Universal Features
Planning Outdoor Common Areas
Retirement
Cohousing & Your Active Lifestyle
Social Isolation & Loneliness Relating to Dementia &
Alzheimer Disease
What About
Children?
What
Are Usual Common
Areas?
What
Is Shared, Private in Retirement Cohousing?
In fact, Jane Adler wrote for the Chicago Tribune, "The dirty little secret of seniors-only buildings is that residents don't want to see only old people. Fresh, young faces make a difference."
Many other retirement-age seniors agree.
How can seniors include younger people in their day-to-day life while maintaining separate cohousing communities?
Combine.
Building a senior cohousing community adjacent to an intergenerational cohousing community makes sense. Two separate cohousing communities, one with seniors, one for all ages, is certainly a possible solution, particularly if the two cohousing communities share some commonalities.
Location, location, location.
1. Locate within (safe) walking distance of retail centers, parks, or community centers.
2. Locate near a day-care center where seniors can volunteer to be gramps or granny for the day. Everyone loves babies.
3. Locate near an urban/suburban central area or possible future suburban shopping area, even if retail is not there yet. A concentration of seniors who need places to shop and eat will eventually bring in some development. In turn, those storefronts will bring in all ages to shop and eat.
Rentals.
Rentals might also help.
1. Second-Story Housing Rentals: When senior cohousing is one story, build a few 1.5 story homes to include a small efficiency apartment for, possibly, a quiet college student.
2. First-Story Retail Rentals: When urban senior cohousing is in a multi-story building and located in appropriate retail areas, leave the first-story available for rental.
3. Community Retail: Some general cohousing communities and other forms of housing such as urban apartments are including retail units in their plans. A small restaurant is particularly appealing to seniors.
4. The second story of a common house is also a potential location for rentals.
The Fair Housing Act protects families with children, even families who are pregnant. For general information, click here, then consult a professional with knowledge about the Fair Housing Act.
Also, to see more about rentals here.
DFW
Ecovillages
Retirement or Intergenerational
Green Housing and Villages
in many areas of
Dallas-Fort Worth.
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