Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: COmmunity based business and self insurance

[Shava Nerad (shava]

> There are number of self supporting communities which do a mixture of
> product creation, information dealing, and agriculture, and as far as I know
> of, they are all communal economies. I am doubtful that you could have a
> personal based economy system support a self sufficient community.  Maybe
> there are examples of this in the communities movement somewhere I don't
> know about?  

We're planning on subsidizing our existance on grant money, for the 
non-profit community businesses we'll be doing.  It's a funny way to 
start a coho, and I have no idea if it will work -- but the coho is 
being planned as the residential housing for the staff of an educational
institution.

Shava