Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cohousing Question - common ownership

[Charles Nuckolls (administrator]

Common-ownership communities generally go by a different name (e.g., 
"commune"), not "cohousing."  There are very few in the United States:  Twin 
Oaks is probably the best known.  There are others that approach ownership in 
common, like Dancing Rabbit and Sandhill.  What is interesting about these 
communities is that they rarely grow to more than 100 people; they tend to 
discourage families with children; and the average length of membership is less 
than five years. They are, not surprisingly, communities of the young.  
Cohousing communities generally do own some things in common, like (some) land 
and the common house, but the dominant model is private ownership of 
dwellings.  And the only real growth area in cohousing is not among the young, 
but the old (60 and up) -- so-called "senior cohousing."  Interestingly, it is 
this segment of cohousing that is most like the communes in its demographic 
preference for families without children.
 
 
Charles W. Nuckolls
Utah Valley Commons


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Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Cohousing Question - common ownership


>From a UK lurker:
LILAC in Leeds is a co-operative:
http://www.lilac.coop/other-info/faqs.html#MHOS. Construction is due to
start this month!

>
> Are there any cohousing communities in which the property is held in
> common?
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