Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Re: Racism

[sbraun (sbraun]

> Brash conservatives, bad dressers,
> people with green eyes, may illicit a negative response from
individuals
> who don't like them. They will not encounter roadblocks to equal
access
> to housing,...
> 

[Sheila] But I think this list has just proved that people with certain
opinions *will* encounter roadblocks to equal access to housing--at
least to cohousing. Cohousing groups admit freely to a variety of
strategies, both legal and illegal, for keeping out people who don't
match a list of criteria ("values" or "core values").

The cohousing idea cannot become a mainstream choice in our country as
long as it is treated as a refuge for the people who know best how to
live, and as long as those people protect their refuge by keeping out
people who are different from themselves. More importantly, we ought not
to repeat the old error of provincialism, even if this time it is
provincialism of a superior kind.

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