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From: Diane (dianeclairegmail.com) | |
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 07:34:09 -0700 (PDT) |
A note about O'Hashi and his community = from him ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Alan O'Hashi via Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> Date: Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 9:56 AM Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Does your community clean all the common areas yourselves? - cautionary tale To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> Cc: Alan O'Hashi <adoecos [at] yahoo.com> Cohousers - This is a cautionary tale. At my place, which is a senior community, when I first moved into the place, there was a high level of individual member participation. During the 10 years I've been here, participation has waned lately due to aging issues around health, "aha" moments about aging and wanting to travel more. In addition, during this time 31 percent of the community has turned over and three basements have been converted into "housemate" rentals. Participation around here now is largely sitting in meetings deciding who to hire to do the work. We contract out all of the heavy lifting: snow removal, cleaning the common house, landscaping. In a sense we contract out community dinners because we have pot lucks rather than working together to prepare meals. Forming communities should look to the future about how to deal getting the work done when neighbors age. We're going through this now, but on a reactionary basis. The duty prescription is not onerous. Members are asked to be on one team, clean up after a dinner and lock up the common house from time to time. Since the "work" now is sitting in meetings, there tends to be static membership on teams without much rotation and thus, no room for new members. In addition, the gardening team was eliminated because those attracted to that work didn't like to make agendas and take minutes. Whether or not de facto gardening is counted as "community participation" is unclear. There was a note that recently came out asking for ideas about types of work that could be counted toward participation or made up work that people could do. Compounding the aging issue is this. Another four houses - 25 percent - are selling within the year and at the same time. As such, much is in flux because of the prospects of a bunch of new neighbors moving into the community. ThxAlan O. ******************************************* Alan O'Hashi - ECOS EnviroCultural Organization Systems http://www.alanohashi.com/ecos Colorado 303-910-5782 Wyoming 307-274-1910 Nebraska 402-327-1652 ******************************************* _________________________________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: http://l.cohousing.org/info -- Diane Margolis 175 Richdale Av. Cambridge, MA 02140 617 354 1349
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