Cohousing-L Mailing List: What is cohousing success? [was question about cohousing communities that have not made it

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

> On Jul 26, 2021, at 7:29 PM, Elizabeth Magill <pastorlizm [at] gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> I'm assuming a "fail" would be to find that we were just an HOA, not
> actually a community.

Having lived in a number of condos and having friends who lived in condos, I 
find that cohousers under estimate HOAs for developing relationships between 
residents. Obviously it isn’t cohousing and isn’t a conscious attempt to create 
shared cultural expectations but strong relationships develop under all kinds 
of HOAs. 

Not sure what I would think of as a fail. Refusing to use the name “cohousing”?

I think people have posted lists in the past but it has been a long time. Maybe 
it would be a good exercise now.

Sharon
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