Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: cohousing in Canada

[Jeffrey O. Hobson (johobson]

Tom, please pass this to Russell:

The CMHC report you mentioned sounded interesting.  Do you have a summary of
the conclusions of the CMHC report with regard to encouraging "user
participant design" and *why* that will advance sustainability?  It makes
some sense intuitively, but I can also imagine someone persuasively arguing
the opposite, so I'd like to know if CMHC folks have good evidence.  I'd
like to know whether the report is basically someone arguing why user
participant design *should* encourage sustainability, or whether the report
shows, via existing projects and comparative data, that participant design
on average actually *does* encourage sustainability as compared to
"conventional" design.  If it is the latter, the report is probably
something people on this list would be able to use to obtain grant funding.

I'm in California, and feeling a bit overloaded by paper these days, so am
not rushing off to order the report myself.  

Thanks,
Jeffrey Hobson
johobson [at] wheel.ucdavis.edu
N Street Cohousing, Davis Energy Group