Sharing (Housing) With Friends
Topics in this newsletter:
Sharing with Friends podcast episode
Help support the Homefullness Show
Where to find or list a collective housing/intentional community project
NZ Housing Survey—what kind of house/neighbourhood do you prefer?
Ways I can help your organisation or group with your housing goals
Sharing with Friends: A unique co-housing model for single older women
The Sharing with Friends housing model was born out of a burning desire for housing justice for single older women who are in the "missing middle"--who do not qualify for social housing but also can't afford market rental or to buy their own home and who are living on the edge of housing insecurity.
The unique co-housing model provides an affordable, secure, and connected way of living where five women, who self-select, share a specifically designed house which offers privacy and automony while also a sense of community, having spaces for shared meals and activities.
I interview Susan Davies and Adrienne Irvine, founders of the Sharing with Friends Foundation about how they formed the foundation and fund the development, how the programme gives women agency by through workshops that empowers them to design how they will live together, and how the model can be replicated throughout Australia and other countries.
Find the episode on your preferred podcast app. Check out other great episode topics at the bottom of the newsletter.
Links from the episode:
Support of the Homefullness Show: Increasing Listeners
The Homefullness Show’s mission is to host change-making conversations on housing for people and planet. In a time when a large percentage of populations around the world are housing insecure or house-poor and stressed (spending more than 30% of their income on rent/mortgage), I want to shine a light on the many solutions out there to solve this housing crisis.
To keep the Homefullness podcast going, I need financial support in the way of funding, sponsorship, or donations. And, to attract financial support, I need to gain more subscribed listeners and downloads.
This is where you come in…
Please subscribe to the Homefullness Show and share it by word of mouth and send a podcast link to your network. More listeners means I can qualify to get financial support to continue providing useful content and better editing.
Where to find or list a collective housing project:
Listing of your housing community or finding an existing or emerging one
Have you wondered where you can find a place to live with an intentional community that meets your values and lifestyle? Or, how you can find more residents for the one you’re creating?
There are two places to list:
Foundation for Intentional Community’s Intentional Community Directory:
The Housing Innovation Society’s Collective Housing Directory
https://thehousinginnovationsociety.com/directory-of-collective-housing
NZ Housing Survey—what kind of house/neighbourhood do you prefer?
In order to get many more diverse choices of houses and neighbourhoods developed, built, funded, financed, and available, “the powers that be” (government, planners, developers, builders) need to know what people want and would be willing to buy/rent.
The NZ Housing Survey wants to collect data from the public s to the kind of house/neighbourhood people prefer.
Listen to my interview with Greer O’Donnell, one of the originators of the survey
Click to take the survey which takes around 10-20 minutes. As you take the survey, it might help you clarify what kind of housing would prefer.
How I can help you:
Council and provider housing strategy for affordable and regenerative housing
Check out my page of services here.
Land-share/housing mentorship & facilitation
Are you looking to share land or create a housing project with others?
I offer mentorship and facilitation of group visioning online or in person.
Compassionate Communication: Increasing Cooperation and Reducing Conflict for Teams and Workplaces
I offer workshops for teams, groups, and organisations in communication techniques that increase cooperation and that reduce conflict and that help to work through conflict in supportive and productive ways.