Our team loves to help buyer clients find homes closer to family - even multigenerational housing opportunities. These buyers not only desire an affordable home, but a home that allows them to navigate life's many seasons with their loved ones near. In this spirit, it's our pleasure to highlight Hope and a Future, a nonprofit organization pioneering a new intentional form of community.
Hope and Future currently operates within a beautiful farmhouse off High Point Road in Madison. Multiple generations live together in this Adult Family Home with a unique "Family of Friends" staffing model: the on-site nurse, other care workers, and sometimes their children live in the home in exchange for their help. Even Karin Krause, the Executive Director, lives there. Together, this found family of all ages enjoys meals in a sun-filled dining room, welcomes their loved ones for hangouts and holidays, and partakes in many hobbies like watching musical performances and gardening. They don't have "programming," they have a shared life while fostering independence and sharing their talents. And maybe most importantly, they help usher their older residents through the end stages of their life with purpose, grace, and community. Rosemarie, a former and beloved resident, noted, "I don't live in a facility! I share a home with people who know how to help me."
If you spend a morning with Karin, you'll feel inspired. Not only by her vision, but also by her persistence. After years of "no's," and "we're not sure's," and "not quite yet's," Hope and a Future is close to raising funds for their $13 million dollar expansion project to construct an intergenerational neighborhood on Madison's westside. This innovative neighborhood will be composed of adult care homes, affordable single-family homes, community space, and daycare (to scratch the surface!). We encourage you to read more about Hope and a Future's incredible work that has "quietly created a solution to address this deep loneliness and disconnect" in our modern living arrangements. Learn more at hopeandafutureinc.org -- and get ready to be inspired.
(Rendering of Hope and a Future's intergenerational neighborhood expansion project, courtesy of their website)