Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: We need to find ways to scale this up

[Mariana Almeida (missmgrrl]

I would venture to say that cohousing is a subset of the overall housing 
development market. 
In America, we are in short of housing by around 5 million units in desirable 
places.(Article: 
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/14/america-is-short-more-than-5-million-homes-study-says.html)
The challenges of building cohousing are a just more extreme version of the 
challenges of building housing period.
I think a more productive question for the cohousing movement is: Q: How might 
we unleash the building of way more new reasonably priced housing in desirable 
locations? A: One tact is changing the zoning regulations that prohibit 
multi-family dwellings, for example. Getting involved with Yes In My Back Yard 
movement locally is one way.
Mariana
Berkeley California
 

    On Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 04:15:51 AM PDT, b farris via Cohousing-L 
<cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:  
 
 My feeling is that communities haven’t shown a commitment to making co-housing 
affordable. 

> On Mar 22, 2022, at 11:29 AM, Mac Thomson via Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] 
> cohousing.org> wrote:
> 
> The communities movement is a slow growing tree. My faith is that if we keep 
> nurturing it, it will continue to strengthen and grow. And hopefully someday 
> that growth will really accelerate and community living will become 
> commonplace.
> 
> Covid has certainly made people reevaluate their values and choices and 
> driven many to community living. May the trend continue.
> 
> -- 
> Mac Thomson
> 
> Heartwood Cohousing
> Southwest Colorado
> http://www.heartwoodcohousing.com
> 
> 
> "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become 
> by achieving your goals.” 
>          - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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>> On Mar 22, 2022, at 9:56 AM, Steve Welzer <stevenwelzer [at] gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Ways to live with less stress on people and on “the planet” are desperately
>> needed, and those of us in the movement feel sure that cohousing and
>> ecovillage living shows a way forward in that regard.
>> 
>> I was so encouraged when Katie McCamant launched the “500 Communities”
>> program in 2015. I really thought that hundreds of cohousing communities
>> would get created within the projected ten-year time span. But here we are
>> seven years later having to acknowledge that it and other such endeavors
>> have fallen far, far short of those aspirations.
>> 
>> Badly needed. Hard to accomplish. Anticipating a breakthrough toward
>> scaling up the lifeways transformation our movement represents.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> Steve Welzer
>> (working with Altair EcoVillage in Kimberton, PA)
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