Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cohousing for the Mainstream

[Nitsan Vardi (emi_nv]

Cohousing is still "alternative housing" in Denmark, after more than 20
years. Most of the people I talk to do not quite know what it is or how it
works. (by the way - a lot of people in Israel do not know how a kibbutz
is organized - and it has been around for nearly 100 years!). I suppose
that for making cohousing well-known, you have to place one at every other
street corner - and who wants to establish a cohousing project in the
heart of a big city? 

Nitsan Vardi 
Saettedammen, Denmark

On 19 Oct 1995, Dan Suchman wrote:

> Thank you, Nitsan Vardi, for providing a Danish perspective on the concept of
> cohousing for the mainstream.  I do not know whether mine was among the
> cohousing-l posts to which you intended to respond.  However, I do want to 
> make
> clear that I am not a cohousing "evangelist".  I do not advocate cohousing as
> the way that all, or even a majority, of Americans "should" [wince] live.  I
> simply see cohousing as having something valuable to offer and I would like to
> make it AVAILABLE as an OPTION to as many people as possible.  As I've said
> before, I would like to see cohousing become a mainstream housing alternative,
> rather than "alternative housing".  Has that yet happened in Denmark?  How do
> you feel about this?
> 
>