Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Re: Robs Conference Report

[Stuart Staniford-Chen (stanifor]

There must be an awful lot we could learn from Denmark on this point.  
My impression from Chuck Durrett's recent talks is that there are 
cohousing communities all over the map there - pretty much every 
new development gets at least one cohousing community as part of it.  
My impression is that they are still all resident designed?  So the 
process must still be fairly lengthy.

Chuck did also say that banks there now compete to finance cohousing, and 
the government encourages it.  Their planning departments must all be very 
familiar and comfortable with it.  Those things would all make a tremendous
difference here.  But I imagine they still must have to put in a great deal of
time deciding what colour the common house carpet is, and all those other
details.  Anybody actually know?

It's a terrible pity we don't have some Danes writing for this list.  

Stuart.
N St. Cohousing
stanifor [at] cs.ucdavis.edu