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

[Matt Lawrence (matt]

On Thu, 5 Jun 2014, Fred H Olson 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.

There were a number of other issues that also contributed to the failure. 
This project is also why I finally gave up on Cohousing after researching 
it for over 15 years.

-- Matt
It's not what I know that counts.
It's what I can remember in time to use.