Restoring Natural Family Size

Building Bigger, Stronger Families with Co-Op Bedrooms

Multi-generational Families are Natural, Healthy and… NORMAL.

Young women today delay pregnancy to become educated and independent, developing the specialized skills needed in today's urbanized and multifaceted society.

They especially need elders' support, advice, and direction — living only with peers delays and limits self-realization.

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Why? How?

For millions of years, we had bigger multi-generational families built on shared values and responsibilities, collaborative self-defense, and peak experiences. Convention has dictated today’s housing supply, two-parent homes that our great-grandparents would find small.

Frequent verbal communication is critical, especially for children who must hear thirty to forty thousand words daily. As they transition into adolescence, they need other adults to reinforce their lessons and provide inspirational examples of adult behavior.

A resilient household and a reliable foundation need at least six adults, and they want strategically planned architecture and design.

Seniors also benefit from having younger friends. They suffer and die simply for lack of companionship. Corporate-run retirement housing is not a good investment and may be isolating. Hoarding and valuable estates received upon death tend to lead to conflict. Nursing homes are a final stop, but dying in isolation is a tragedy and a lost opportunity. Death is a reminder to live fully. 

MARKET CHARACTERISTICS

B0+ who need a broad, deep base of support
14+ who want to build equity one-half bedroom at a time
30s+ who want an efficient and prosperous home for their kids
60s+ who enjoy mentoring, and can help their kids by downsizing
70s+ who enjoy spending part of their days with children
80s+ who want to keep on living and giving

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Goals

URBAN

  • Transform office buildings to host start-ups and form families

  • Transform apartment buildings to become homes to our families with rent-to-own studios and bedrooms on floors with shared living space

    SUBURBAN

  • Update suburban zoning to allow building across lot lines, and building up

  • Starting with tear-downs, build the 24/7 core of the family compounds with a first floor able to support additional stories added incrementally

  • Add bedrooms and outdoor space by obtaining the surrounding lots

    FINANCING

    All accommodations are rent-to-own co-ops. Therefore, financing must extend for a year or longer than usual, and the developer must work with the co-op board.