Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Universal Design and Co-housing

[Jill Robinson (jillrob]

From what I've seen, there is not much access at most cohos.

The only exceptions I'm aware of have members with mobility disabilities 
who are also leaders of the disability rights community, namely:

East Lake Commons in Atlanta,
Swan Market in Oakland.
Takoma Village in DC, and
Cornerstone in Boston.

Eno Commons in Durham has a few accessible units and one level of the 
common house is accessible.

I hope others will post additions to the list of accessible cohos 
(meaning access to all common spaces and visitability in all units) .

I'm disappointed to know of a number of cohos that have intentionally or 
carelessly abandoned access. A coho is sort of by-definition a community 
of socially conscious people. I had developed an expectation that they 
would OF COURSE be universally designed. In fact, they seem little 
better than any other housing development. Somehow, that hurts more 
coming from people who you expect to both know better and act better.

Jill

--
Politics … [is] one of the principle arts of living peacefully in a crowded 
world.
Ray Stannard Baker



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