Cohousing-L Mailing List: AARP cohousing Fact sheet [was: Flattery by imitation

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

The 4 page AARP Cohousing FACT SHEET is at:
http://assets.aarp.org/rgcenter/ppi/liv-com/fs175-cohousing.pdf

(short url: http://bit.ly/KQb5IP for use in comments etc)

So clearly the ARRP does support cohousing.  It is regretable
that the recent article did not compare pocket neighborhoods
with cohousing, they do clearly have some similarity.  From what
little I've read:    (comments welcome)

Pocket Neighborhoods              Cohousing
smaller often about 13 units      typicially about 30 units
developer, market driven          group driven development and operated
smaller if any common facilities  more extensive commonhouse
common meals etc?                 Common meals typical

Note that these things are related.  Also I suspect that the
cohousing process is more difficult and therefore combined
with the size implications, more pocket communities may be get
developed.  On the other hand over time cohousing communities have
used developers more.

Fred who will be 65 the end of the month and finally
     joined ARRP a while back tho I had not yet read their Bulletin
     that I saw come thru the mailbox recently.

PS I sent a note to the article author:

Hello,

Thanks for your recent article "Sharing Common Ground".  It has
generated a bit of flurry on the Cohousing-L mailing list (
http:l.cohousing.org ). People regretted that cohousing was not
mentioned given the similarities. AARP has had articles about
cohousing and has a pdf fact sheet about cohousing. It would be nice
to have a comparison.  If we create such a comparison online, how
could it be offered to readers of your article?  I do not see a
"Letters to the Editor" in the paper copy of the AARP Bulletin.

--
Fred H. Olson  Minneapolis,MN 55411  USA        (near north Mpls)
     Email:        fholson at cohousing.org      612-588-9532
My Link Pg: http://fholson.cohousing.org         My org:
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