Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: RE: [C-L]_ HOAs in Cohousing

[Marta Vanegas, Concordia Organizer (admin]

Craig, 
 
Bluntly: your interpretation is wrong.  I would like to encourage people 
starting to GO FOR MORE COMMUNITY whereever they happen to live now.  
 
Here is the twist:  Communes are good.  Permaculture is good.  Neither is 
mainstream, they are pretty good though.  
 
What I was talking about is that I'm trying to reach the mainstream with the 
concept of cohousing.  Even in the Cohousing book, McCamant and Durrett argue 
that one of the communities is so attractive because it's just slightly deviant 
from mainstream single family homes - with better site plannin they could 
achieve many benefits of building a community.

Craig Ragland <craigragland [at] gmail.com> wrote:
Marta, my interpretation of your mail is that "we" are better off if cohousing 
is distanced from values which are not mainstream enough, i.e. recycling is ok, 
permaculture is not. Cohousing is good, Communes are not. 
 
This doesn't reflect my values - I am proud to live in an intentional community 
which uses the cohousing model. This is quite different from some "Cohousing 
development" - our housing is secondary, our community is primary.