Seattle’s housing scene is defined by high prices and shrinking apartments, leaving many people feeling both financially squeezed and socially disconnected. Cohousing offers an alternative.

For Pride month, The Flytrap visited Durham, North Carolina’s Village Hearth, the first LGBTQ cohousing community in the nation for people 55 and over.

Seattle’s housing scene is defined by high prices and shrinking apartments, leaving many people feeling both financially squeezed and socially disconnected. Cohousing offers an alternative.

Lietuvninkas et al. use state-of-the-art gnotobiotic approaches to investigate whether cohousing or cross-fostering overpower the role of genetics in shaping the fecal bacterial commensal population. While cohousing normalizes the microbiomes of syngeneic mice, neither cohousing nor cross-fostering followed by cohousing normalizes the microbiomes of adult genetically distinct mouse strains.

As people live longer, they are reimagining where and how they want to live.

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What if you could create housing without starting from scratch? Facing a housing shortage, Scotland is bringing new life to abandoned homes.

Documentário de Davi Boarato sobre a comunidade aldeia lançado em março de 2014. Muita Mostra desafios e aprendizados de criar uma ecovila ou cohousing.