Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Akron Beacon-Journal Article

[TR Ruddick (truddick]

> [Original Message]
> [ Fred's NOTE: The one page article by Mary Beth Breckenridge concludes
>   with this noteworthy statement:
>
>  Most cohousing groups never make it as far as a land purchase, however.
>  Thomas Ruddick of Dayton Cohousing, a group that has been unable to
>  recruit enough members to create a community, attributed that to the lack
>  of a tradition of that kind of living arrangement in the United States
>  and the difficulty of coordinating large groups of people to make major
>  investments.

Interesting how these articles turn out--I had tried to put Breckenridge in
touch with Cincinnati Eco-Village, which at last report is pretty close to
getting to move-in, but evidently our little inactive Dayton group is the
only one that she could speak to?

I had also tried to direct her to other more interesting sources--in
particular the Wifeswap episode with Zev :-) but I guess in the end the
article turned into a short filler piece rather than a full-fledged feature.

Maybe in a couple of years conditions in Ohio will change.

T
R