Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: What is co-housing really?

[Liz Ryan Cole (lizryancole]

One benefit of cohousing is that people in cohousing can provide the  
support - emotional and financial - to individuals who want to "do  
good".  (How we define doing good will certainly vary).  I have seen  
many examples of members of cohousing communities making a positive  
difference.  But simply reducing our environmental footprint and  
providing a community in which children can grow up with the support  
and love of more than just their parents, and people can age in place  
and in community is, IMHO, a good thing all by itself.

Liz

Pinnacle Project
Lyme, NH
802-831-1240


Liz Ryan Cole
On Aug 29, 2008, at 2:26 AM, Gerald Manata wrote:

>      Well said, Cindy. Your second paragraph seems to be describing  
> what I labeled earlier as a culturally conservative cohousing  
> complex which I do not care for.
>
> Cindy T <cindy_t25 [at] hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> In reflecting on some of the comments about accommodating the  
> disabled made here on the list over the past six months or so, I  
> find myself wondering just what the difference is between co- 
> housing communities and regular communities.
>
> In some ways, it begins to seem to me that many are just another  
> form of property development.  "Community" seems to mean that  
> similar people get together and may have a common house and might  
> share meals and chores, but do not commit to goals of inclusiveness  
> of diversity, compassion for the less fortunate, certainly not a  
> sense of being our brother's keeper, or other things requiring  
> really major attitude adjustments from standard American home  
> developments.
>
> I realize there are exceptions, and have seen some on the list, but  
> in looking around at websites for co-housing communities, they seem  
> to be pretty homogeneous, and rather exclusive racially and in  
> terms of income.  Perhaps I came to the list expecting co-housing  
> to be something it isn't.
>
> Cindy T
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