Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Intentional Communities vs. Cohousing <FWD>

[Fred H Olson WB0YQM (fholson]

Message author: Joyce Gorsuch  JCGORSUCH [at] UCDAVIS.EDU 
Posted by the COHOUSING-L sysop.
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 94 10:23 CDT


> Sandy Bodzin <sb5i+ [at] andrew.cmu.edu> asked:
> Can anyone please explain the difffernece between an intentional
>community and a cohousing community?
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>
>For me, a cohousing community is one subset of models for intentional
>communities , which is a more general term.  IE - there can be urban, rural,
>etc cohousing - they can set energy efficiency or self sufficiency as a
>priority or not, but still be cohousing plus a variation.  
>        Intentional community includes a huge range of models - from income
>pooling
>and all-communal dining and other very strong requirements for participation
>down to , I suppose, houses in the same neighborhood with some regular shared
>activities.  I'm not so sure how to define the limits on this.
>
>Re: the Quaker question, and religious requirments and legality (i.e.
>discrimination) , i can only guess that it depends on how you set it up. 
>
>Judy
>
>Judy Baxter, Monterey Cohousing Community, (MoCoCo)
>Twin Cities Area, Minneapolis/St.Paul Minnesota
>e-mail: baxter [at] epivax.epi.umn.edu


I agree with you, but I would add that the nuclear family is an integral
part of cohousing, perhaps even the focus of cohousing. Such has been my
experience living at N Street.

-Joyce Gorsuch