Re: Sustainable Social Structures | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Juva (juvacomcast.net) | |
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:33:40 -0700 (PDT) |
Following up on Lavinia's comments, "I hope some day we can find a way to blend it with sustainable social structures that recognize and respect people who need more assistance in life than others due to chronic illness or challenged aging. The government infrastructure in the US is very weak in this regard." We decided not to wait for the government. Some of us in CoHo Ecovillage in Corvallis have started a new non-profit organization called A Home in Community (Tree sent an email about it a couple weeks ago) with the goal to increase awareness among cohousing communities and people living with disabilities about the mutual benefits of living in community together. We plan to provide support and assistance to make this happen for communities and individuals living with disabilities. Our first project is to purchase a $214,000 condo unit at CoHo Ecovillage in Corvallis, Oregon, which will be a subsidized rental property for low-income people with disabilities. Our Members and Ex-members have already donated around $80,000 and we have just started! If your interested, check out our new web page www.AhomeInCommunity.org. We definitely don't plan on stopping with CoHo Ecovillage but will keep going. We hope to share the lessons learned in fundraising (and the structure we have created) and what we have learned and will learn living with our Ahic rental and our Home life neighbors (a home purchased by a non-profit that creates homes for adults living with developmental disabilities adults http://www.homelifeinc.org/coho.html ). We expect to move in October of this year. Isn't is great what we can accomplish with a group of people working together! Yeah, I know preaching to the choir. Juva Ah, Community - check it out! cohousing-corvallis.com
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Re: New View as a model of possibility Fred H Olson, April 27 2007
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Re: New View as a model of possibility Carol Gulyas, April 27 2007
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Sustainable Social Structures Lavinia Weissman, April 28 2007
- Re: Sustainable Social Structures Juva, April 29 2007
- Re: Sustainable Social Structures Lavinia Weissman, April 29 2007
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Sustainable Social Structures Lavinia Weissman, April 28 2007
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Re: New View as a model of possibility Carol Gulyas, April 27 2007
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