Re: Cohousing, Communes, Community--Not for Profit! Please | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: James Ausman (ausmansoda.berkeley.edu) | |
Date: Wed, 25 May 94 12:46 CDT |
Co-housers and Friends, Jim Slotta brings up interesting points in his discussion of whether or not communities can survive the death of their founders. I spent three years living in a student co-op, which by nature, had a tremendous turn- over rate. In this situation, the level of community of the house ebbed and flowed, depending on many things, probably the most important being how similar in philosophic nature the members were to each other. However, often the newest members were the ones most willing to dedicate time and energy to the community. Of course they tended to reshape it into their own vision of what they thought the community "should be", but I do not think this is a bad thing at all. How relevant this is to co-housing is certainly questionable, but I am cautiously optimistic that most co-housing communities will probably survive the death of the founding generation. I am sure that they will mutate into unanticipated forms, but that is probably inevitable. Jim Ausman ausman [at] soda.berkeley.edu
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