Cohousing-L Mailing List: Cohousing and UU Churches

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

On Feb 25 Ann Zabaldo (zabaldoearthlink.net) wrote:

>Are there any cohousing communities, built, building or forming, that
>saw their genesis in a UU Church?  Either sponsored by the church or
>just friends from the church getting together to build cohousing?

I think the answer is clearly "yes" but you set a pretty low bar ( "any" )
I thinks a proposed cohousing community in Sommerville Mass
(but never completed) had ties to the UU society there.
It would be interesting to know how many and broken down by degree of
association -- particularly "sponsored".

There is a long association between Unitarian Universalists (UUs)
( http://uua.org ) and cohousing based on compatible inclinations.
I got 160 hits in a search of the cohousing archives for:
Unitarian

Joani Blank (a long time subscriber but who seldom
reads cohousing-L these days) once kept a contact list of UU's
in cohousing and held sessions for UU's at national cohousing
conference(s?). I first learned of cohousing at a presentation
at the First Unitarian Society here in Minneapolis about 1991.

Given that .3% of the US population indentify as UU's (many fewer
in congregations see  http://religions.pewforum.org and
http://transientandpermanent.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/
how-many-uus-are-there-in-the-usa/ )
we are clearly over-represented in cohousing tho numbers are hard
to come by.

Fred

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