Re: COHOUSING undercover
From: David L. Mandel (75407.2361compuserve.com)
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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