Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Question re failure rate of forming groups

[Robert Heinich (robert]

I do not have Diana Leafe Christian's books with me at work, but if memory
serves, intentional communities in general had a 90% failure rate and
cohousing development had a 75% failure rate.  A quick search produced this
http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/01/01.html which supports these figures.

However, I agree that the Great Recession was not helpful to forming group.

-Robert Heinich
 Eno Commons Cohousing
 Durham, NC
 http://www.enocommons.org
 where we just had our retreat at nearby Eno River State Park


On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Bob Morrison <RHmorrison [at] aol.com> wrote:

>
>  In a recent posting, Craig wrote that Diana Leafe Christian wrote that
> only 25% of forming groups succeed thru completion of the project. Does
> this
> mean cohousing, or intentional communities in general?
>
>  A few years ago I read that the failure rate of cohousing groups is about
> 50%. So it looks like the failure rate has gotten worse over the last few
> years. I am not surprised. The recession has had a devastating effect on
> forming groups.
>
>
>
> Bob Morrison