Fw: Cohousing and car sharing | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: administration (adminmoonland.com) | |
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 10:51:07 -0600 (MDT) |
Have you heard of such communities in Ontario? Are there any other types of communities besides cohousing and cooperative? thanks Helen > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Rob Sandelin <floriferous [at] email.msn.com> >To: Multiple recipients of list <cohousing-l [at] freedom.mtn.org> >Date: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 10:47 AM >Subject: RE: Cohousing and car sharing > > >>I doubt cohousing will ever evolve much in the way of car ownership >sharing. >>The private property ownership model of cohousing is very intrenched in the >>Cohousing definition and Americans in general,and this is one of the >hidden >>filters of cohousing. Next to a house, a car is the next most expensive >>property and status that Americans own. Since you filter in people who find >>home ownership important, then sharing car ownership is not likely to find >>much interest. I would suspect that in communities that do not have home >>ownership as a central tenet, that sharing ownership of cars would be >>easier. For example, I know of 4 income sharing communities that share >>ownership of their fleet. >> >>The private ownership boundaries of cohousing set some clear limitations in >>most groups. For instance, I have not heard of cohousing groups sharing >>income or doing income support when a member loses their job. In the condo >>model that most groups adopt, each individual is responsible for their own >>mortgage and if you can't cut it economically, well, see you later. So >large >>economic support is not typically part of cohousing, and sharing a car is a >>large economic issue. > >
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Re: Cohousing and car sharing Graham Meltzer, September 19 1999
- RE: Cohousing and car sharing Rob Sandelin, September 21 1999
- Re: Cohousing and car sharing Victoria, September 21 1999
- Fw: Cohousing and car sharing administration, September 21 1999
- Re: Cohousing and car sharing Michael McIntyre, September 21 1999
- Re: Cohousing and car sharing Fred H. Olson, September 21 1999
- RE: Cohousing and car sharing brian, September 21 1999
- Re: Cohousing and car sharing Unnat, September 21 1999
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