Incorporating Affordable Units into Urban Cohousing: A University of Washington Architecture Student Project

Half Day Workshop: Fri 8:30 – 12:00

Special FREE Workshop

Graduate students at UW studied 3 urban sites in Seattle for hypothetical cohousing projects. They worked with a “client group” that included cohousing residents and a non-profit affordable housing developer. The student projects will be on display in Gould Court but this session will give forum for some of the students to present their projects; the “clients” to give comments on what aspects of the project were realistic / problematic; and how affordable units could be incorporated into real cohousing projects. Conference attendees are invited to come listen, learn, and ask question of the students and “clients”. This free session is intended to bring ideas to forming and existing groups on how they can incorporate affordable units into their community, thereby integrating people of mixed incomes and backgrounds into cohousing.