by Paul Voss
On the evening of January 20, several Hart’s Mill members and friends came toget
her in the Fellowship Hall of the Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship to hear Chuck Durrett speak on the topic, “Cohousing: A Community Approach to Housing Ourselves.” Chuck is the award-winning architect who (together with his wife Katy McCamant) introduced the concept of cohousing to the US.
Several established or forming intentional communities around the Triangle A
rea staffed information tables, and everyone loved the spirited and entertaining main presentation by Chuck Durrett. The event was sponsored by Village Hearth Cohousing, a local project addressing the challenges in senior housing for LGBT individuals. Thanks to Christina and Charles for staffing the Hart’s Mill information table.
It was great to be around so many people choosing to live in community!
While attending the National Co-Housing Conference in 2015 held in Durham I had the distinct pleasure of “being fed at the hand of Chuck, Katy, Laird and a host of others who graciously doled out their nuggets of knowledge”.
In fact, it was during that trip that I found myself at the Orange County Assessors office explaining to a very patient clerk my desire to find areas within the county that would be more amiable to a co-housing development. Long story short, I left there with the web address Hartsmill.org . . . and the rest, as they say, is history.