Re: Alexandria VA wants to group cohousing with Boarding houses - please speak up | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Sharon Villines (sharonsharonvillines.com) | |
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 07:23:29 -0700 (PDT) |
I also did not see Ann’s message before I responded to Chris. Ann has been having some email challenges lately so it is possible it didn’t appear at the time it was supposed to have appeared. Sharon. > On Apr 9, 2021, at 10:00 AM, Chris Roth - Communities Editor <editor [at] > gen-us.net> wrote: > > A note of explanation/apology: I subscribe to the daily digest, and was > responding to Becca-Person's message on that. I just went online to the > current state of the messages (which I only very rarely do)--and noticed a > subsequent message from Ann Zabaldo (written yesterday), which for some > reason did not make it into the digest I received at 6 am this morning. It > seems unfortunate that the digest doesn't include the latest messages, > because if I'd seen Ann's message (discouraging anyone from contacting Alexa) > before following my impulse to respond to Becca-Person's message, I would > have refrained from writing or sending the message to Alexa. Now, having read > Ann's message from yesterday in the archives, it seems like a bad idea to > have written Alexa. Is there any way to program the digest so it includes > up-to-date posts? Otherwise, this kind of thing may easily happen again, for > those who rely on the digests and don't carefully double-check vs. the online > archive each time. > > Thanks! > > Chris > > On 4/9/2021 8:59 AM, Chris Roth - Communities Editor wrote: >> >> Here's a letter I just sent to alexa.powell [at] alexandriava.gov, the >> contact listed at the bottom of the page linked in Becca-Person's message: >> >> Hi Alexa, >> >> Thank you for this initiative. I fully appreciate what you are trying to >> accomplish and promote here. And... >> >> As you have probably heard from others by now, Cohousing is a >> well-established term with national and international recognition and quite >> a number of published books, as well as a national association (Cohousing >> Assocation of the United States) and other groups associated with it--and >> what you are describing here is NOT what this established word means. I >> applaud what you are promoting here and these kinds of housing initiatives, >> but I hope you will find another name for it, as your using this term seems >> likely to create confusion as well as possibly even animosity/opposition >> from those who would like to see this term used correctly to represent a >> movement/form of community that they care about. I edit a magazine >> <https://www.gen-us.net/communities/> about intentional communities and >> other forms of cooperative culture that frequently features cohousing >> projects (according to the accepted definition--see www.cohousing.org >> <https://www.cohousing.org/>--a combination of private homes with spaces >> held in common, in a cooperatively governed intentional community) and we >> are very careful to use this term correctly, in its intended meaning. >> "Shared housing" would be a much more accurate term, without a specific >> other meaning, for what you are describing, and I urge you to consider using >> it, or some other term that accurately describes what you are promoting >> without already having an accepted, different meaning. >> >> Please let me know if you have any questions or if you'd like me to connect >> you with any further resources related to anything I've written about. >> >> Thank you! >> >> Chris Roth >> >> -- >> Chris Roth >> Editor, Communities >> 81868 Lost Valley Lane >> Dexter, OR 97431 >> editor [at] gen-us.net >> 541-937-5221 >> gen-us.net/communities >> >> for Communities advertising, >> please contact Joyce Bressler: >> ads [at] gen-us.net >> 845-558-4492 >> >> for photos and layout, >> please contact Yulia Zarubina: >> layout [at] gen-us.net >> 910-617-6136 >> On 4/9/2021 6:16 AM, cohousing-l-request [at] cohousing.org wrote: >>> Message: 1 >>> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 10:31:01 -0500 >>> From: Becca-Person Brackett<brackett3 [at] gmail.com> >>> To:cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org, Fred Olson<fholson [at] cohousing.org> >>> Subject: [C-L]_ Alexandria VA wants to group cohousing with Boarding >>> houses - please speak up >>> Message-ID: >>> <CA+D2w7f0FqofJOThW7jJFkHNowuvJqC_Qv5jp3+veWfnOeVLxw [at] >>> mail.gmail.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" >>> >>> My Google alert on the word "Cohousing" keeps turning up misuse of the term. >>> Maybe it's a losing battle, but I would urge anyone in the state of >>> Virginia or cohousers in the DC area to send the word to the City Council >>> of Alexandria that cohousing is NOT boarding houses and renting out extra >>> bedrooms! >>> >>> https://www.alexandriava.gov/planning/info/default.aspx?id=120969 >>> >>> They are planning regulations to encourage co-living and allow more >>> density, make more affordable housing, and those are wonderful goals- but >>> the cohousing community needs to tell them DON'T CALL IT COHOUSING. >>> I like to refer officials and journalist to the wikipedia page >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohousing >>> and especially the first sentence: >>> " *Cohousing*[1]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohousing#cite_note-1> is >>> an intentional community >>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_community> of private homes >>> clustered around shared space. The term originated in Denmark >>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark> in late 1960s.[2] >>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohousing#cite_note-2> Each attached or >>> single family home has traditional amenities, including a private kitchen." >>> >>> If we don't speak up, the misinformation will continue - damaging the image >>> of true cohousing projects. >>> Cohousing home purchasers should be able to benefit from any govt program >>> that assists in making home ownership more affordable. >>> How is Alexandria addressing that need? >>> >>> I will keep on the alert! >>> Becca Brackett >> > -- > Chris Roth > Editor, Communities > 81868 Lost Valley Lane > Dexter, OR 97431 > editor [at] gen-us.net > 541-937-5221 > gen-us.net/communities > > for Communities advertising, > please contact Joyce Bressler: > ads [at] gen-us.net > 845-558-4492 > > for photos and layout, > please contact Yulia Zarubina: > layout [at] gen-us.net > 910-617-6136 > > _________________________________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > http://L.cohousing.org/info > > >
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Alexandria VA wants to group cohousing with Boarding houses - please speak up Becca-Person Brackett, April 8 2021
- Re: Alexandria VA wants to group cohousing with Boarding houses - please speak up Ann Zabaldo, April 8 2021
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Re: Alexandria VA wants to group cohousing with Boarding houses - please speak up Chris Roth - Communities Editor, April 9 2021
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Re: Alexandria VA wants to group cohousing with Boarding houses - please speak up Chris Roth - Communities Editor, April 9 2021
- Re: Alexandria VA wants to group cohousing with Boarding houses - please speak up Sharon Villines, April 10 2021
- Re: Alexandria VA wants to group cohousing with Boarding houses - please speak up Ann Zabaldo, April 11 2021
- Re: Alexandria VA wants to group cohousing with Boarding houses - please speak up Ann Zabaldo, April 20 2021
- Re: Alexandria VA wants to group cohousing with Boarding houses - please speak up KAREN A CARLSON, April 21 2021
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Re: Alexandria VA wants to group cohousing with Boarding houses - please speak up Chris Roth - Communities Editor, April 9 2021
- Re: Alexandria VA wants to group cohousing with Boarding houses - please speak up Sharon Villines, April 9 2021
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