Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: 4 walls and a roof

[Scott Cowley (scowley]

Russell Mawby alludes to one of the most crucial points in the issue of housing:
That low income housing should not be simply a question of finding enough 
"shelving".
It is not a question of public-private bank ripoffs, or mass-produced boxes.  
It is about
integrating people into a community of people having  a wide variety of needs 
and
abilities.  It is also about asking people to participate in whatever way they 
can in
meeting those needs -- by working at it, and by helping each other.