Using Co-Op Bedrooms to Build Fantastic Families
The Jobs Foundation of California believes that innovation extends beyond technology, transforming how we live and relate. Co-op bedrooms represent a radical rethinking of home: shared living designed to strengthen family bonds and provide affordable, nurturing environments.
Why Co-Op Bedrooms?
Enhanced Family Interaction: Sharing homes fosters long-term relationships.
Economic Efficiency: By pooling resources, individuals can access housing with more amenities.
Community Building: Co-op bedrooms and studios in larger homes foster a bigger sense of family
Driving Innovation through Competitions
Our competitions challenge architects and interior designers to develop homes for state-of-the-art living.
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, a fad for two-parent homes that our great-great-grandparents and great-grandparents would have found 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. And security.
A resilient household and a reliable foundation need more than five adults, and they want strategically planned architecture and design.
Families of choice form around shared values and struggles. They form on missions, often overcoming obstacles, while working alongside partners.
Young women often delay pregnancy to pursue education and achieve independence, developing the specialized skills necessary in today's urbanized and multifaceted society. They especially need the support, advice, and direction of elders. Living only with peers or one partner can delay child-rearing and make it more expensive, limiting the ability to love generously and unconditionally.
The experience and resources of elders are invaluable for the self-realization of the young.
MARKET CHARACTERISTICS
18+ build equity one-half bedroom at a time, grow with older mentors
30s+ own efficient and prosperous home
60s+ downsize and mentor
80s+ keep on living and giving
Death serves as a reminder to the young to love and live fully.
Valuable estates and chattels received upon death tend to lead to strife amongst the heirs, so it best to distribute all assets before dying. When downsizing, seniors get younger friends and quasi-children.
Corporate-run retirement housing is a poor investment. Nursing homes cause dying to occur in isolation, which can be a lost opportunity to pass along the most important insights into life.
Goals
URBAN
Transform office buildings to host start-ups and form tribes
Transform apartment buildings to become homes for forming families with rent-to-own studios and bedrooms on floors with shared living space
SUBURBAN
Obtain variances and update suburban zoning to allow building across lot lines
Develop, replacing a teardown with the foundation of a multi-story central 24/7, with floors added as neighboring lots are acquired
FINANCING
All accommodations are rent-to-own co-ops. Therefore, development financing extends several years beyond construction completion
