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2024 Cooperative Conversation series: Housing Cooperatives

  • Ten Penny Studio 3424 16th Avenue South Seattle, WA, 98144 United States (map)

Conversations and site visits to learn more about local King County cooperative models.

Co-op curious? Join this site visit series and learn more about local cooperative businesses, housing co-ops, and the journeys through legal, governance and structural issues for co-ops in our region. Space is limited – attendees must register for each event!
Learn more and register here: 
https://forms.gle/hYFEvRMagYdxf6VM6 

Questions? Email Mike Seo at Mike@sharedcapital.coop


Event 3: Housing Cooperatives with Ten Penny Studio 

Date/Time: November 6 at 5:45pm 

Location: Beacon Hill, Seattle

Description: Participants will tour the housing co-op in construction and hear from Kelly Sommerfield, principal architect at (https://www.tenpennystudio.com/), who will give a brief overview of their ADU co-op project and specifics of their co-housing model. 

Then participants will be encouraged to join the conversation on co-op and co-housing models, moderated by Kelly, including conversations on: 

  • How our neighborhoods, the climate and the world are changing due to ongoing climate and housing crises.

  • How might communal living models help or impede community resiliency when there is the inevitable collapse? 

  • What is your co-living lineage (or lack thereof)? What scales of communal living works or might work for you? Are there ways you already live communally on your block, in your neighborhood, with your community? 

Food will be provided from a local venue. 

Next events in this series include:
Event 4: Villa Communitaria and childcare co-op Rayito de Sol 

Date/Time: November 14 at 6pm 

Location: South Seattle College

Register here!