Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Lessons from a Austin Cohousing that disbanded

[R Philip Dowds (rpdowds]

The story at the link seems familiar and credible.

DELAY:  All experienced with real estate development — whether developers, 
planning board members, or anti-development activists — know that delay is 
usually a project’s worst enemy.  An experienced development team can smell it 
coming, and will have learned coping strategies, but novices often get 
blindsided and find themselves trudging through quicksand they did not even 
know was there.

THE GREAT RECESSION:  This financial calamity croaked many, many innocent 
households, groups, institutions, and other decent parties who did not deserve 
it.  Austin went down, but sadly, Austin was far from alone.  The enduring 
disgrace is not that of getting clobbered by the disaster, but rather, that of 
a nation which has been unable to identify and prosecute the villains, or even 
learn its lesson.

RPD

On Jun 5, 2014, at 11:18 AM, Fred H Olson <fholson [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

> 
> A lot more people would like to live in cohousing than have
> managed to do so.  Many projects to build cohousing do not succeed
> after varying amounts of progress.  It esiser to talk about
> success so analyses of those that failed are less common but
> there are lessons to be learned from them.
> 
> Today I happened onto one (from about 2011?) :
> 
>> We're sorry to announce that Austin Cohousing has disbanded,
>> and our Kaleidoscope Village project is not going to happen.
> 
> For the rest of this 2 page file see:
> http://www.austincohousing.org/
> 
> Note that this page may be from one person's point of view, I don't know.
> 
> Fred
> 
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