Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: communities in TX?

[Craig Ragland (craigragland]

In the 2008 Coho/US census, we reported no occupied cohousing communities in
Texas. If we got it wrong, please let the communities know that we'd love to
include them and that the editorially-maintained Cohousing Directory is our
primary data source.

The FIC Directory, which is more inclusive than the Cohousing Directory
includes many communities not found in the Cohousing Directory. The FIC
Directory lists 37 communities in Texas that answered either Yes or No to
the question "Is in the forming stage" and that say Yes to the question "Use
the cohousing model?"

*http://tinyurl.com/6cxda3*

If we exclude those that answered "No," we see this:

*http://tinyurl.com/6kvrf9*
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a total of 16 communities.

None of these 16 have made it into the Cohousing Directory as Built (yet).
Some of the 16 are still, actually, actively in development and what they
say in their directory listing conflicts with what they saw on their
website.

Given its large population, its not too suprising that the Cohousing Website
is used by hundreds of Texans every single month - so there is clearly
interest and Texas won't remain coho-free for too much longer - and some of
the Forming Groups there are getting close!

Another BIG coho-free state, by the way, is Florida.
P.S. A mail I sent recently had a problem with leading and trailing
characters, so if those above don't work, you can try copying and pasting
them into your browser address field.
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Laura Agnew <laurangel_2000 [at] yahoo.com>
wrote:

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> Are there active co-housing communities in Texas?  I've looked on the
> registry, but it seems like most are in the forming phase and are still
> looking for people and places.
> Thanks,
> Laura
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Craig Ragland

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