Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Truly Capitalist Things

[mira Danyel brisk (mirabepeace]

Very interesting.  Yes, it seems to me that the situation that cohousing
finds itself in is that it can be just about anywhere along the spectrum of
'collaboration and competition' depending on what the members do with it.
Is that right?

So we can not assume this model in and of itself will transform anyone per
se.  Perhaps it is a vehicle to allow that to happen faster if that's what
people want.

Bill - I agree - down the road there will be more models or variation on
the theme - eg. what's now called 'coliving', etc - that adopt even more of
a collaborative mind set to things as 'fundamental' as housing - and
transportation.   I believe strongly this will be needed even more in the
future.

Philip - Thanks for your personal stories.  I'm sure many can relate to
this as we certainly do still live in 'American society'.   As society
changes, so will we!  :)    As you say, we still have a lot of work in
front of us.   All we can do is keep walking the path and sharing our
conviction and experience and another way is possible and perhaps even ...
more fun!  We'll have to see.

Thanks for bringing up the subject, though.  It's one that very much
interests me.




On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 2:47 PM, R Philip Dowds <rpdowds [at] comcast.net> 
wrote:

>
> Maybe.  But I am aware of more than a couple cohousing communities that
> are convinced that tenant-occupied units devalue the property and make
> mortgages more difficult to secure … and so, would much prefer a very high
> rate of owner occupancy.  Meanwhile, at Cornerstone — a high-density
> development in a high-density city, well served by transit within a few
> minutes walk — I have tried hard to push for various schemes involving
> community-owned shared cars.  The advantages are strong in my mind, but so
> far, no acceptance of this idea; people remain heavily attached to their
> “personal” vehicles, which in turn seem essential to personal freedom and
> independence.
>
> We’ve still got a lot of work in front of us.  This may in part be due to
> America as a competitive culture, rather than a collaborative one.
>
> Thanks,
> Philip Dowds
> Cornerstone Village Cohousing
> Cambridge, MA
>
> > On Oct 17, 2015, at 2:08 PM, William New <wnew [at] stillcreek.net> wrote:
> >
> > And if we move homes/housing out of the _capitalist_ economy and into
> the _sharing_ economy, what happens then??
> >
> > Ponder the emerging worldview of Millennials who are shunning personal
> ownership of houses and cars, embracing social sharing (e.g. Uber, AirBnB,
> cooperative financing), and redefining alternative models of career and
> education (to obviate indebtedness) — “co-housing” (largely a product of
> the Boomer culture as we know it) will likely morph to something beyond a
> “truly capitalist thing”.
>
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