Lois Kapila, in the Dublin Inquirer, reports:
The biggest difference between the mammoth shared-living blocks being put forward by developers such as Bartra, and cohousing models, boils down, in a sense, to who gets listened to.
Shared living is mainly speculative, said Padraig Flynn, of Self-Organised Architecture (SOA), on Friday, in a meeting room at the Fumbally Exchange in Blackpitts.
“People who live there have no agency or input of the design or the long-term management of the building,” Flynn says.
Cohousing is the opposite: it’s resident-led, from design to management.
“It gives people an opportunity to decide where they cut costs, what’s important to them, and what they don’t actually need,” he says.
“They’re two completely different concepts. But the wording is almost identical so it becomes very confusing for people,” said Flynn.
The CoHousing Here! event [in Dublin] in mid-June, organised by Flynn and others at SOA, should help get that message out – and further open up debates around future affordable housing in the city.
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