Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Affordability responses and media piece, part 2

[April (aroggio]

Oops.  To finish the second paragraph...

Second, it feels like we have evolved exactly the way we have needed to, 
with just the right amount of challenges to keep us on our toes, and 
gathering enough momentum to really face obstacles (like building affordable 
homes) with vigor and creativity.

Thanks again - sorry for the disjointed email!
April
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "April" <aroggio [at] nycap.rr.com>
To: "Cohousing-L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:38 PM
Subject: [C-L]_ Affordability responses and media piece


> Hi all -
>
> I wanted to belatedly thank everyone for sharing your experiences and 
> offering advice about how to make cohousing affordable; I received a lot 
> of responses, both on and offlist.  I compiled them and my group has been 
> discussing them (and probably will continue discussing them for a while).
>
> It feels as though there is a bit of a split among the responses - between 
> those who feel that *building is expensive* and, really, we're just going 
> to have to accept that fact and try to find ways of subsidizing expensive 
> homes - and those who are consider "cohousing" a much looser term, maybe 
> more akin to the intentional communities movement than the cohousing 
> movement.  I think each side offers thought-provoking commentary, and 
> advice that we will definitely consider.  But this split is so interesting 
> to me personally because I was the one who organized our initial meetings 
> with the insistence that we were creating an ecovillage in the spirit of 
> the contemporary cohousing movement, not the broader (narrower?) 
> intentional communities movement, which often, I think, conjures up images 
> of income-sharing dormitories.  First, it was entirely unnecessary for me 
> to worry about others worrying that I was interested in creating something 
> like the latter - you live, you learn - and second,
>
> On another note, I thought I'd share that we made the paper - our local 
> Schenectady Gazette interviewed me for an article, and did a really nice 
> job, I thought.  You have to search for"cohousing" and pay for it on their 
> site - www.dailygazette.com - but I am trying to reformat it to post on 
> our site.  (...which I hope isn't copyright infringement...)  Our site is 
> undergoing a transition to another format - but it should be up within the 
> week or so.
>
> Thanks again for all of your advice!
> April
>
> April Roggio
> Capital District Eco-Housing
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