Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Should individual "sponsorship" be allowed of community

[Chris (chris-cohousing]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 05:46:29AM -0700, Howard Landman said: 
> Yes, Liz, but on the other hand, is it fair for the single poorest family
> in the community to block progress on major projects that they feel they
> can't afford?  And that most other families want?  If you require that
> everything be funded perfectly fairly, this is what will happen much of
> the time.  Are you willing to accept that as the price of equality?

I'm finding this language to be sort of accusatory, with the kind of
assumptions I'm more used to seeing in American political discourse: "The
way you want to do things, the world will end, is that what you really
want to happen?". it's very guilt-trippy, and I think it's fairly
inappropriate for what should be a plain discussion.

why, if a community follows its process, would a family with less money be
the one to block projects? do you have experience with this? what did you
do about it? how does your community handle such things?

Liz isn't talking about theoreticals. she's drawing on her lengthy
experience living in cohousing and dealing with these things
directly. according to her, her community has not had the problem you
describe of poorer families blocking projects. rather than your opinion,
what has your experience been?

let's keep it professional here. :-)

Chris


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