Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cohousing and THEY

[biow (biow]

I've taken much of my replies on the thread into personal e-mail, as they
are not relevant to cohousing per se. I'm getting ready to leave on
a week's vacation, so I won't be able to continue it much, anyway.
My initial followup either fell in the bit bucket, or else I didn't 
get one of the digests.

Anywho, I'll just make the statement that I'm not a Libertarian, but
am worried by the degree to which the Great Idea of cohousing is being
coopted by the Crunchy Left. I've seen too many good ideas in the past
die because they became associated with one or the other political
extreme, thus effectively reducing their appeal to a narrow fragment
of the political spectrum. I'd be even more concerned if the Libertarians
were coopting cohousing.

For those of us who are trying to develop cohousing, it is important
that we not let our political prejudice warp our views of those with 
whom we must deal. That eVil RuNNing-DoG KepitaLIst (apologies to 
Drieux) Banker is the guy with whom you need to--and can--work to get 
financing. Cohousing can get jumbo or conforming financing much 
like other forms of housing. We just have to shoulder burdens that
are normally foisted off on the Evil Kepitalist developers.

Sorry about the lack of a (human) name with my original rant. I
am:

Chris Biow                            (.sig stolen)