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

[Stephen McClure (stephenfmcclure]

Yes, b farris, you hit the nail on the head. My wife and I have been 
investigating cohousing groups for a couple of years now. Almost all new 
development projects are beyond our means, and I would say we’re comfortably 
middle class.
The demographic slice that has the progressive values to be interested in 
cohousing coupled with sufficient wealth to afford it is rather small.
Unless you find a way to make cohousing affordable to working and 
lower-to-middle middle class folks, your movement will not grow significantly. 
In fact, it will contribute to the growing wealth disparity in our society by 
creating, despite the lovely inclusive rhetoric, elitist enclaves.
Stephen McClure

> On Mar 23, 2022, at 06:16, 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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