RE: Cohousing and car sharing | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: brian (briantrillium-hollow.org) | |
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:47:04 -0600 (MDT) |
Rob Sandlin wrote: I doubt cohousing will ever evolve much in the way of car ownership sharing. I must disagree with this statement. If cohousing communities are going to work, we must evolve to meet our real needs. Our community required ownership to get started because we couldn't get it built any other way. Now that we are living here, I refuse to be tied to "this is what cohousers do" limitations. For a community to be meaningful and sustainable, the members of the community will have to figure out what works for them. There is no one right way for a cohousing community to be. Our community is within a year of car sharing. We often loan each other cars now but the ownership is separate. Some of us are waiting to replace are outdated cars with a shared electric/hybred vehicle when they come out in the next year. Brian Setzler Trillium Hollow Portland, Oregon 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. At Sharingwood ownership of a truck is shared amoung several people who own "shares" in the truck. This is very handy because you mostly only need a truck occiasionally. We own a small sail boat the same way. If you want to use the truck but do not own a share, then you pay a user fee. Rob Sandelin Northwest Intentional Communties Association Building a better society, one neighborhood at a time
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