Re: Sustainable Social Structures
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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