Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Themed, affinity, or specialty cohousing

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

I would argue that cohousing communities will often have shared
interests that naturally arise out of the interests of the members.
And that shared interest may play a role in who decides to join.
That is, people become aware of and self select in part because
they are attracted to communities with members with whom they share
some interests or at least a general perspective.

This relates to the difficulty of some kinds of diversity that has
been noted in threads on that topic.

Whether that shared interest rises to the level of being a "theme"
will vary and probably seldom be a defining characteristic.
And the shared interest may be rather general.

One community that, as I understand it, had a shared interest in
community organizing is / was On Going Concerns community in Portland
Oregon. They have not been very connected to other cohousing
communities much. They are not in the directory --
http://cohousing.org/directory . I do not know how the community is
doing - I do not have any contacts there. I did visit them years ago.
I think they were on a tour or were open to visitors related to a
cohousing conference years ago. I have this little page about them:
http://mn.cohousing.org/retrofit/ongoing.htm

Can anyone give an update on them?

Fred

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