Multi-Generational Housing
Just an observation:
The media proclaims the development of “multi-generational housing” as a result of people living longer, and, delaying marriage and childbirth.
But, either my dad’s family were just trendsetters over 100 years ago when aunts, cousins and grandmothers all lived there either permanently, or, temporarily, or, this idea isn’t revolutionary. Historically, the family home was just that, a place for the family of all ages and circmstances.
The idea of a home exclusively for the nuclear family is a modern one. I’m not saying a house full of people is ideal for everyone, it’s just not a new concept.
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2 opinions for Multi-Generational Housing
Slartibartfast
Jan 23, 2007 at 2:19 pm
We lived with my mother in law, or she lived with us (depending on who you asked) from a year after my father in law’s death, to her own death 10 years later.
It’s a big house, and it worked out great, especially when the kids came along.
I think our forefathers had the right idea.
ageless
Mar 17, 2007 at 11:58 pm
The idea is ‘old as the hills’ but there are new realities leading to the inclination to treat it as something new. Primarily we have a mismatch of housing developed for nuclear families at particular life stages (e.g. ’starter home,’ or ‘move up home’, etc.)pitted against wildly diverse multi-generational households for whom the housing just does not work.
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