Cohousing-L Mailing List: Getting confused

[Timothy Clark (gsadix]

I am on more than one cohousing list and seeing a lot of what people are
doing.   I am confused.

I want to live in co housing and I made that decision after researching
how co housing is defined.  Check the faq's in cohousing org for this
definition.  I dont think it servers the cohousing community to allow
what defines cohousing to become muddy.

I see this definition as having two parts.  Desire and Design. Take away
one of those two and you have housing but not necessarily cohousing.  A
resent example is a group of houses I found listed on the cohousing.org
list. There were 5 or 6 houses on one piece of property that a developer
was trying to sell as cohousing. No common house and no designed vehicle
access.  Is this co housing? I dont think so.  On another group I found
a listing for a house for sale that could be split into three areas?  Is
this cohousing? I dont think so. Another in the planning stages for 32
units with a 2000 sgft common house.  Is this cohousing? I dont think
so.  However they are all advertised as co housing.

When the desire for cohousing and the incorrectly designed structure
produces dissatisfaction is it going to give cohousing a bad name?

Tim





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