Here's an excerpt from a post about co-housing:\
Have you ever met someone and feel like they've been a friend you should have had for your whole life? That is the feeling my husband and I have about the folks in Co-HOusing Houston, The two of us, now in our 60s wanted to live closer to town. We also wanted a stronger sense of community. We wanted not only to be able to run next door for a cup of sugar but also to ask that favor of people who knew what our cookies tasted like because we had shared them together over a cup of coffee or tea.
There would be no gates on the community so that we did not see ourselves apart from the wider community in the historical Second Ward just East of Houston. There would be community spaces for art, for gardens, for bike storage and swimming and music and exercise and community-wide meals. There would be hike and bike trails nearbyThere would be public transportation available for when we grew too old to drive. All this and there would be just the right amount o private space with our own family in our own wholly-owned private unit. All ages are welcome. Decisions are made together, with care for one another's opinions.
This group is truly special! I agree because I know one of the founders, Lynn Morstead, and I know how committed she is to this community concept.
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That's an interesting idea. I live in one of the few affordable active senior living apartment complexes in Houston. It has some of the features described in the article, although we don't have such things as our own hike and bike trail nearby. We have almost no group activities since the pandemic, but we had a lot of that before, and I hope will return to that once the pandemic is under control.
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