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

[Yisraela (yisraela_hc]

Tx. . . Any in the Corpus Christi area?  Yis

Craig Ragland wrote: 
> 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*
> **
> 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:
>>
>> 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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> craig [at] cohousing.org
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