Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cohousing-L Digest, Vol 152, Issue 32

[John Richmond (johnrichmond50]

Crystal and Mira, we are grappling with exactly the same questions in Richmond. 
The racially-based socioeconomic divide sounds similar to that of large cities 
in other parts of the US and like that in most cities of any size in the 
Southeast. I wonder if all of us in the Southeast are bumping into this 
particular version of the inclusion question.

John Richmond
Richmond Cohousing (Va)



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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 13:30:42 +0000
From: Crystal Farmer <crystalbyrdfarmer [at] gmail.com>
To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
Subject: [C-L]_ Charlotte and Housing
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Greetings from Charlotte! I am reminded that you can't talk about housing
without talking about race. Maybe cohousing isn't the place for social
justice, but I think this movement for real community can do more than one
thing at once. Below is a short article about housing in Charlotte.

Our cohousing group was looking at the University City area for land--the
same area where Keith Scott was murdered. This area is considered "up and
coming" because land prices are low (read: minority population) but a new
light rail line is being built. If this is not an opportunity for
inclusion, I don't know what is.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/22/news/economy/charlotte-economy/index.html

Crystal Farmer
Charlotte Cohousing Community