Cohousing-L Mailing List: Newspaper looking for CoHo info

[RAYGASSER (RAYGASSER]

Anybody looking to get some CoHousing press? The Ithaca (NY) Journal
is looking for some CoHousing info from across the nation and around the
world (boy, with lines like that I should write for the network news!).
They're already familiar with CoHousing, thanks to EcoVillage at Ithaca,
and have done several articles on us through our 3-1/2 years of planning.
But EVI isn't the only CoHo group in the world, and they want to know
about existing communities and how they cope, as well as how some different
budding neighborhoods are faring. 

I got the following from one of our members. If anyone can help, you can 
either reply to Bill Webber directly, <71317.767 [at] compuserve.com>, 
or to me <raygasser [at] delphi.com> and I'll forward to him.

Thanks,
Ray Gasser, EcoVillage at Ithaca
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>From: Bill Webber <71317.767 [at] compuserve.com>
>Subject: Ithaca Journal on Cohousing
>
>A reporter from the Ithaca Journal called me this evening about 
>EcoVillage at Ithaca and wanted me to ask the national and international 
>CoHousing community four general questions: 
>
>1)  How do new residents coming into cohousing deal
>    with the transition from traditional housing 
>    to cohousing? e.g. downsizing, more community living, less privacy, 
>    endless meetings, problems with kids, pets, etc.  
>
>2)  How do you deal with turnover in older, longer established
>    cohousing units?  
>    
>3)  What are some of the challenges with rezoning ordinances,
>    planning boards, etc. in getting cohousing established? 
>
>4) What are some of the problems with financing a new cohousing community? 
>   e.g. apportionment, land purchase, etc.  
>
>We have a lot of information 
>on many of these topics, but the Ithaca Journal would like to hear 
>some more answers from the national and international communities.  
>