Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Need Zoning Law Expertise

[Tom Smyth (tom]

This is a fascinating line of reasoning that I've followed myself at times.
Is there any research on it?

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 4:06 PM Brian Bartholomew via Cohousing-L <
cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

> > Whether capsules, trailers and tents should be incorporated into our
> local or national housing strategy might be debated further.
> >
> > But not here.
>
> I'm not convinced coho is only suitable for urban projects costing $450K
> for relatively small units, with members having a coastal urban worldview.
> I don't see why the coho social arrangement won't work for different prices
> and worldviews, with structures shrunk all the way down to capsule hotels
> when necessary to meet cost requirements.
>
> Mentally ill veterans building a tent camp in the woods, or drug addicts
> building a tent camp in the city?  Don't these projects have burning souls
> and plenaries with partial consensus?  What they don't have is sturdy
> buildings and some measure of property rights over their real estate, but
> that's due to the city council.
>
> Genetically-related extended family appears dead as a familial organizing
> principle.  To the extent there's a replacement, it's fictive kinship
> coalesced around shared worldview.  As social security purchasing power
> declines 10%/year, see http://www.chapwoodindex.com , the only way
> average boomers will afford assisted living is if they do it themselves in
> a coho.  Some other first world countries have the same demographic
> problem.  The future is coho.
>
> Brian
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