Re: COHOUSING undercover | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: David L. Mandel (75407.2361![]() |
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Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 00:27:09 -0600 |
The responses to my qualms about surreptitiously buying up a majority of an existing condo development and turning it into cohousing show that I didn't express what I meant in the best way. When I wrote "attempting to win over ALL current residents," I meant openly welcoming them to participate in any interim community-building activities that are organized in the meantime and making sure that when the idea of converting to a more formal cohousing arrangement is first raised (early and often), all residents are in principle welcomed to join the effort while not being ostracized and conspired against if they don't wish to. In fact, in the next sentence I wrote, "Realistically, some will surely not be interested and will eventually move if the conversion is successful." My point in all this was my opinion that such a project, which may turn out to be very unrealistic of a lot of residents don't want to move, should be undertaken only openly and verrrrrrry patiently; that it would be very bad for cohousing to come to be seen, even in a few instances, as a secretive, cultish thing in which some residents of a complex are, essentially, plotting to get rid of others. David Mandel, Southside Park Cohousing
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