Re: Political context of cohousing
From: Kevin Wolf (kjwolfucdavis.edu)
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 94 02:23 CDT
I apologize for the *codes* that are in this original reply.  This is the 
first time this has happened when I just respond to an email message 
without getting out of the server I am modemed into.  Does anyone have an 
idea why this happened?

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Kevin Wolf
724 N St
Davis, CA 95616
phone and fax: 916-758-4211

On Sun, 4 Sep 1994, Kevin Wolf wrote:

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> 
> Regarding Craig Willis comments about the political in co-housing.  N=20
> Street might be different than most co-housing communities because we've=20
> added houses one at a time over eight years.  Our community is=20
> predominantly on the left end of the political perspective.  Close to=20
> 100% vote, most of us are involved in some good cause or another, many as=
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> leaders.  =C0We basically agree on most political issues, especially in=20
> voting (though some of us are in the Green Party, while others are=20
> independents, and most are probably registered Democrats.  I don't=20
> believe there is a Republican among us.)  We disagree on tactics, large=20
> scale strategy, some on science (we have a number of PhD scientist types=20
> who knock the sense out of some of our newspaper gathered wisdom). =20
> Overall, there is a great deal of agreement.
> 
> Why N Street may be different  is that most people rent here before=20
> buying a place or becoming permanently involved.  Most started by renting=
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> a room in someone an existing members house.  Until the last year, almost=
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> everyone of the owners rented rooms, and all the houses owned by absentee=
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> landlords were rented by groups of unrelated adults.  What happens in=20
> this selection process is that those people who like the existing=20
> political makeup, philosophy etc are selected in the first place by their=
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> housemates or self-select over time.  And I imagine that there is some=20
> pursuasion happening whereby people change their attitudes and ideas=20
> based on new infomration which they get from living here and being in on=20
> some of the conversations and information sharing. =20
> 
> I would like to hear if non-retrofitted communities are as politically=20
> homogenous as ours. =20
> 
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> Kevin Wolf
> 724 N St
> Davis, CA 95616
> phone and fax: 916-758-4211
> 
> 

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