Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Nearly 50 communities signed up for Open House Day 4/27. Can you get us there?

[David Mencher (menchers]

Hi Raines,

We here at CoHousingIsrael (CHI) would like to sign up- we are still a
"Forming" community (5 years "forming"), but with a good chance of
acquiring a site within the next few months.

What do we have to do to sign up?

David

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 9:10 PM Raines Cohen <rc3-coho-L [at] raines.com> wrote:

> Wow. Thanks to your responses, we are on the verge of having 50 communities
> on the list for National Cohousing Open House Day, coming on Saturday April
> 27. Could yours be the 50th? We may get there today.
>
> It doesn't take much, just a commitment to tour by request, a couple of
> open hours, a community member or two. You don't even need to have a site
> yet; some forming groups are hosting info tables at established
> communities, or just gathering at a coffeeshop. We are being a little
> picky, though, and only listing cohousing neighborhoods that are in the
> Directory section of cohousing.org, but we can help you create a listing
> if
> you haven't done that yet.
>
> States/regions that are particularly under-represented at the moment:
> Western Massachusetts, Vermont, Wisconsin, Central/Southern California
> (plus the greater Santa Cruz area), Michigan, and Georgia (and parts of
> Oregon, but they have an excuse, for a reason listed below)
>
> Get on the list today:
> http://www.cohousing.org/openhouse2019
>
> Raines, your Cohousing Coach and National Cohousing Open House Day
> volunteer
> -
> Here's highlights so far, as inspiration:
>
> 14 States represented so far (as of 4/2/2019):
>
> * Alaska (1)
>
> * California (7) The East Bay, near San Francisco, has the most at the
> moment (totally a coincidence that I live there, I swear! ;-) ), but we
> know that a couple North Bay communities are seeing what they can do, and
> there's great options in the Sacramento area. What's especially exciting to
> see here is forming communities organizing group trips to established
> cohousing neighborhoods. Just added: 3 communities in and around Oakland.
> And the country's only cohousing neighborhood with an ocean-going dock
> (maybe next year we'll offer a cohousing cruise.. several other nearby
> groups are within walking distance of the shore. Perhaps as a bonus we can
> hear from a representative of the Seasteading movement, which wants to
> create offshore floating cohousing-inspired communities).
>
> * Colorado (3) Now reaching beyond the Boulder-Denver axis, with Colorado
> Springs in the mix. Boulder communities, you are under-represented here.
> And I don't yet see any of the lovely communities across the Rockies yet.
>
> * Connecticut (1)
>
> * Iowa (1)
>
> * Massachusetts (5) Just added: one more Boston-area community; another
> expected shortly. In the works with the New England Cohousing MeetUp group:
> an organized self-guided tour
>
> * Minnesota (1) The state's sole built community, located in the
> Minneapolis suburbs, is expanding, so really it should be in both the
> Resident and Building categories.
>
> * New Mexico (1) Coho/US Executive Director Karin Hoskin is visiting area
> communities; perhaps she can get some more onboard.
>
> * North Carolina (7) Currently the leader in percentage of communities
> participating. Among states with more than one cohousing neighborhood, that
> is.
>
> * Oklahoma (1) is the place to be, with the sole built community there
> saying "if you sign up, we'll do a tour for you." With that kind of
> hospitality, we have to agree with the statement, 'Oklahoma is OK.'
>
> * Oregon (3) What better way to warm up for the National Cohousing
> Conference? Note that some Portland-area communities are not hosting open
> house day events this year, because they're focussed on welcoming folks
> coming to the conference, both on the pre-conference tours and
> post-conference open houses.
>
> * Pennsylvania (1) Not just open house day, but the following weekend a
> two-day Cohousing Experience weekend with sleep-over/camp-out options at
> Hundredfold Farm.
>
> * Utah (1)
>
> * Washington (4) Both urban and rural, forming and established, Including a
> "Cohousing 101" talk at the nation's narrowest cohousing community -
> Capitol Hill Urban Cohousing is just 20 feet wide! But deep, in all the
> senses of the word.
>
> Development State of the hosting group:
>
> Forming: 3 (Groups without a specific site yet, sometimes gathering at an
> established community)
> Building: 10 (some meeting at the construction sites, or nearby)
> Resident: 31 (established communities that may or may not have openings for
> rent or resale, but would love to meet you and let you see what cohousing
> means to them)
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