Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Americans with Disabilities Act - Title III

[Diana Carroll (dianaecarroll]

I won't disagree, but I still don't predict a large social shift that
direction in our lifetime.  What SHOULD be and what WILL be are two
different beasts.


On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 3:32 PM, R Philip Dowds <rpdowds [at] comcast.net> 
wrote:

>
> I can say with conviction, enthusiasm and confidence that the single best
> way to reduce housing costs, by a mile, is not to ditch the accessibility
> codes.  Rather, it is to ditch the single family home, and build instead
> multi-family housing structures that work, and live in them together.*
>  And, if you put these structures in or near existing municipal centers,
> you reduce travel costs and land degradation as well.  Promise.
>
> RPD
>
> * Many cohousers are experts in living together, but perhaps less so in
> multi-family models.
>
>