PROPERTY SEARCH

Date Published: 20/01/2023

Murcia Cohousing provides an alternative model for communal living

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City authorities are pairing with the Cohousing Association to provide more information to those interested in learning more about the collaborative housing model

Murcia Cohousing provides an alternative model for communal living

With the cost of rents and property out of reach of ever more people, the search is on for alternative forms of housing and living arrangements that provide more socially responsible and community-centred forms of living. That’s where Cohousing comes in.

Cohousing is a broad term, but in its essence is a type of joint community whereby participants living communally in a fluid environment consisting of a mixture of private homes and large communal spaces.

Murcia City Council, at the request of the Department of Seniors, Housing and Social Services, has said it will collaborate with the Murcia Cohousing Association in an informative session to educate the public about collaborative housing models and the various projects that are being developed both in the Region of Murcia and specifically in its capital.

The city’s Councillor for Seniors, Housing and Social Services, Paqui Pérez is an advocate of this type of collaborative and participatory cohabitation, and has met this week with the members of Murcia Cohousing to learn first-hand about the different collaborative housing initiatives being promoted by the association and to support them in their informative and promotional work.

The Murcia Cohousing Association will be running workshops between February and April to facilitate the creation of collaborative housing groups, to be run by the cooperative group Tangente, which brings together more than a hundred experts in community work, psychology, health, consultancy, gender and equity, training, entrepreneurship and agro-ecology.

Coliving is hard at the best of times, so informative workshops and talks on how to promote social harmony for young and old are vital to be able to find alternative models of living.

In order to develop the collaborative housing model, it is necessary to organise people into ‘seed groups’ according to shared tastes, interests and affinities so that if and when they decide to live in this type of community, it is focused on people and on meeting their needs, and so more likely to succeed.

On Saturday January 21 at 6pm, the Espacio Joven 585 M2 will host an information session, open and free of charge, aimed at all those interested in finding out more about the collaborative co-housing projects that are being developed in the municipality.

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