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

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

>> Is there any research on it?
> 
> I'm not exactly sure what would count as research.  Does anybody dare to 
> compare the clustered housing management similarities between the fictive 
> kinship groups "urban coastal cohousers", "ecovillage with profitable farm", 
> "Christian survivalists building a family compound in Idaho", and 
> "decades-long residents of a trailer park”?

The reason I mentioned the European model is that it's more like the buildings 
that people are used to. Not single family house but intended for 
multigenerational long term living. I just don’t know what the legal structure 
is. They seem like rentals.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines, Washington DC

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