LINK TO PODCAST RE COHOUSING

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Here is a link to a podcast that was created by Natalie Dudas of SFSU
regarding cohousing as a friendly place for LGBTs. It stars our own
inimitable Alan!!

http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/life/011196.html
(Be sure to click on the link on the right to view the mutli-media
slide show with Alan's narration which give a virtual tour of Pleasant
Hill Cohousing)

LGBT housing community flourishes
by Natalie Dudas, staff producer, SFSU
May 22, 2008 4:44 PM

There is a new community that has been built in Pleasant Hill,
California. This community is not the typical subdivision housing
neighborhood -- it's called cohousing.
According to the Cohousing Association of the United States, cohousing
is a type of collaborative housing in which residents actively
participate in the design and operation of their own neighborhoods.
In the Pleasant Hill cohousing community there are over 30 houses and
a large common area for everyone to gather in. They typically have
several meals a week together and are very involved in each others
lives, while still not crossing lines of privacy.
This new cohousing community features a large common house that
includes a children's room, kitchen, and living room, where everyone
in the community can gather. While this cohousing community is
available for anyone, it has become an inviting place for LGBT people
to gather and live together.