Is a porch missing from your life? Would living with people that you respect, admire and enjoy in a gracious home where daily chores are willingly shared be an improvement? If you are considering house sharing to reduce your living expenses, it’s critical to get the people, the place and the basic agreements right to [...]
House sharing is an obvious option to cope with the economic downturn and it offers both promise and peril. Although there is nothing like overcoming challenges to build character, meeting the most basic needs of food and shelter is not a test that anyone should have to take. As households shift formation, the potential of [...]
Posted in Conversations, Housing on Oct 4th, 2008
Do you have that deer-the-headlights feeling? On the bus recently, the driver asked a young mother with three children to silence her fussy child. It was an unwelcome preview of the effect of even more stress. Our culture is fundamentally altered. As the scope of the meltdown seeps through to our daily lives, the effect [...]
Posted in Blog, Conversations, Housing on Sep 27th, 2008
As we peer over the brink of the collapsed financial markets, the world we knew has fundamentally shifted. Big Money Congressional lobbying skewed the playing field to favor the well connected, resulting in the $700 billion bailout package, the ball and chain of debt that signals the beginning of the new era. New Orleans residents [...]
Posted in Housing Resources - local on Sep 13th, 2008
Openings To keep things simple, “affordable” and “cooperative” are lumped into one category. The South Evanston apartments are affordable condos. HUB Housing is an affordable cooperative, BeyondToday is an affordable shared house that is becoming a cooperative. Two apartments at the HUB Housing Cooperative, located on Marshall Boulevard at 24th Street in Little Village, are [...]
Posted in Housing on Aug 27th, 2008
Living alone means that most of the time you don’t have to put up with annoying people inside your home. It also means that you are responsible for every morsel of food that enters your house and your body and that you are responsible for all bills, utilities, maintaining the inside and the outside of [...]
Posted in Community Resources, Housing, Housing Resources - national on Aug 25th, 2008
The National Association of Housing Cooperatives (www.nahc.coop) is a nonprofit national federation of housing cooperatives, mutual housing associations, member associations, other commonly owned resident-owned or controlled housing, professionals, organizations, and individuals interested in promoting the interests of cooperative housing communities. Organized in 1950 and incorporated in 1960, NAHC is the only national cooperative housing organization. [...]