Cohousing-L Mailing List: Affordability/Urban Areas

[Ross M Donald (rnn]

=>To:  OrrinDavid [at] aol.com
=>To: cohousing-l [at] uci.com
=>Subject: Re: Affordability of cohousing
=>Message-ID: <941204152802_5474716 [at] aol.com>
=>
=>   ...cohousing in urban areas. I am part of an
=>organization that wants to study the cohousing option
=>for...
=> 
     what's the org?

=>...community (re) development ideas in Chicago's urban
=>core.  
=>
     The BIGGEST problem is the tenant-landlord
situation.  It doesn't work.  There are options.

=>   But, as either Thoreau or Emerson once said,
=>"Whenever I see somebody coming to do me good, I run
=>the other way!" - one corollary being:  "If it is your
=>intention to help the other person, expect nothing in
=>return, but resentment."
=>
     By this, we mean, one cannot come in from the
schools, the church volunteer groups and the community
action agencies, nor from city hall with money,
education, and eager solutions;  without buying in, in
every way. 

     I suppose you want to "study" poverty, the homeless,
AIDS, crime, teen motherhood, institutional expansion,
neighborhood disinvestment, toxic dumping, lousy
politics, mental illness, corruption, injustice, drugs,
unemployment, racism;  using the current "ideas," such as
sustainability, diversity, environmentalism, ecological
whateverism, community planning, clean energy, midnight
basketball, GIS, etc.

=>Any help or ideas will be most appreciated.
=>
     Here's an idea:  buy my house, help yourself.  I've
had it!

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