Co-North App1

Co-North是一个创新和创业的解决方案，以应对社会隔离和人口老龄化带来的挑战，围绕英国共同居住社区的发展。共同住房是一种集体生活形式，将个人住房集中在一个“共同住房”周围，共享空间和设施，其基础是相互支持、自治和积极参与。在物理上，它旨在促进其成员之间的轻松社交互动，是一种与彼此了解并签署某些价值观的邻居协作组“分开和一起”生活的方式。他们致力于发展创造和维持社区感的社会资本。认识到社区感不仅仅是将人们聚集在一起而产生的，如果团体要和谐地运作，团体凝聚力需要特定的能力建设，Co-North将提供一个制度框架，致力于支持当地形成团体的发展。

Co-North is an innovative and entrepreneurial solution to the challenges arising from social isolation and ageing populations, centred around the development of co-housing communities in the UK. Co-Housing, a form of group living which clusters individual homes around a ‘common house’ with shared space and amenities, is based on mutual support, self-governance and active participation. Physically, it is designed to promote easy social interaction among its members and is a way of living both ‘apart and together’ with a collaborative group of neighbours who know each other and sign up to certain values. They work to develop the social capital that creates and maintains a sense of community.In recognition that a sense of community does not ‘just happen’ merely from putting people together and that group cohesion requires specific capacity building if groups are to function well and harmoniously, Co-North will provide an institutional framework that works to support local forming groups in the development of the...