New blog highlights the benefits of cohousing in "Sharing Households: Eco-Collaborative Housing"

Professor Anitra Nelson of the Centre of Urban Research at RMIT University, Melbourne focuses on methods of eco-collaborative housing that come up against significant barriers in the mainstream housing market.

Listing housing methods including cohousing, hared or joint households and ecovillages amongst her examples, she identifies how they are beneficial in terms of "affordability, sustainability and socialibility".