Hope and heartbreak for New Zealanders dreaming of a communal life

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Hope and heartbreak for New Zealanders dreaming of a communal life

Cohousing offers a vision of connected, community-based living – but the path to realising the dream can be far from smooth “Welcome to the site of hope and heartbreak.”With these words Bronwen Newton greets visitors to a quarter-acre gravel carpark between two industrial buildings in New Zealand’s capital, Wellington. Still visible are the foundations of a sheet-metal workshop that once stood there; not visible is the cohousing project that New…