Cohousing-L Mailing List: Membership requirements / # of adults in household

[Fillard Rhyne (fillard]

Hi there. My name is Fillard; I've been exploring cohousing
opportunities on and off since ~1995, and joined the Cohousing-L
list two weeks ago.

I'm looking for real-life examples of communities where some people
feel that in the _past_, they had good reason to be concerned about
mistreatment or discrimination on their basis of any of the
following...

 o  They were single
 o  They were married
 o  They lived in units by themselves
 o  They lived in units with other people
 o  (Any similar reason)

...but who also feel the mistreatment or discrimination has now
been resolved to their satisfaction. I'd be especially interested
in anything relating to membership fees and other membership
requirements.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I checked the Cohousing-L
archive, and found a discussion in June 1999 (links below), but it
wasn't particularly useful.

My reason for asking is, I imagine, quite run-of-the-mill:
I'm part of a group that's currently deciding how each prospective
household will qualify for membership, and we're thinking about how
to address the fact that different households have varying numbers
of adults. It's already been decided (more or less) that each adult
in the community will have one vote.

Note that it wouldn't really be of any use to know that "90% of
cohousing groups do it such-and-such a way." What I'm really
interested in is how these issues have been successfully resolved
in those particular communities where people on two different
"sides" of the issue have felt strongly about it.

Thanks very much for any help you can offer,
Fillard

P.S. Here are the links I promised to the June 1999 discussion:

<http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/cohousing/jun99/msg00005.html>
<http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/cohousing/jun99/msg00007.html>
<http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/cohousing/jun99/msg00012.html>
<http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/cohousing/jun99/msg00013.html>
<http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/cohousing/jun99/msg00062.html>
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