Re: question about cohousing communities that have not made it | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Elizabeth Magill (pastorlizmgmail.com) | |
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2021 16:30:20 -0700 (PDT) |
Our community was close enough to collapse that a few of us were trying to figure out how to get people to have the conversations. We simply couldn't find land--and spent money investigating several properties. So it was taking more and more money in that we had already *spent*. And then we found land. Lots more went wrong after that, including the zoning board delaying our project for about a year, basically moving construction into the collapse of the real estate market. Really, just about anything that could go wrong did go wrong. And, with about a third of the homes sold, we proceeded. And now have a lovely community. Also, I'm not sure exactly what it would mean to "fail" after move-in. It took us three more years to sell all the homes, and it cost us an extra large hunk of money. But there we were, and here we are, cohousing. I'm assuming a "fail" would be to find that we were just an HOA, not actually a community. -Liz (The Rev. Dr.) Elizabeth Mae Magill Pastor, Ashburnham Community Church Minister to the Affiliates, Ecclesia Ministries www.elizabethmaemagill.com 508-450-0431 On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 6:36 PM Muriel Kranowski <murielk [at] vt.edu> wrote: > Whenever I am read about the odds against a new coho effort succeeding, I > am again so very grateful that not only did a few burning souls start > working on such a project right in my town, but that our project succeeded. > (I was a modest ember type of soul compared to the initial group.) > Muriel at Shadowlake Village > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 6:16 PM Fred H Olson <fholson [at] cohousing.org> > wrote: > > > Jim Bronson >jimbronsonashland [at] gmail.com> asked: > > > > >One of our explorer couples is interested to know about cohousing > > >communities that have failed, both 1) after they were built and > occupied, > > >and 2) when they were in a stage of formation. > > > > I am not aware of of any communities that got built and occupied and > > then failed. But most cohousing development efforts are not successful. > > > > Of the 461 communities listed in cohousing directory from 1994 - 2017, > > 317 failed to get built (69%) and 144 succeeded (31%). > > > > From correspondence a while back, a cohousing developer in Madison, WI > > came up with similar numbers. > > > > See my page at http://l.cohousing.org/1994-2017.htm > > about how I came to this conclusion. > > > > It would be nice to know how many failed after getting to various stages > > of development but I am unaware of any such information. Some of > > those in my study may not have gotten beyond the idea stage with a > > directory listing... > > > > Fred > > > > -- > > Fred H. Olson Minneapolis,MN 55411 USA (near north Mpls) > > Email: fholson at cohousing.org 612-588-9532 > > My Link Pg: http://fholson.cohousing.org > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > > http://L.cohousing.org/info > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > http://L.cohousing.org/info > > > >
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question about cohousing communities that have not made it Jim Bronson, July 26 2021
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Re: question about cohousing communities that have not made it Fred H Olson, July 26 2021
- Re: question about cohousing communities that have not made it Bryan Bowen, July 26 2021
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Re: question about cohousing communities that have not made it Muriel Kranowski, July 26 2021
- Re: question about cohousing communities that have not made it Elizabeth Magill, July 26 2021
- Re: question about cohousing communities that have not made it Chris Hansen, July 26 2021
- What is cohousing success? [was question about cohousing communities that have not made it Sharon Villines, July 27 2021
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Re: question about cohousing communities that have not made it Fred H Olson, July 26 2021
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Re: question about cohousing communities that have not made it David Oesper, July 29 2021
- Re: question about cohousing communities that have not made it Bonnie Fergusson, July 29 2021
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