Cohousing-L Mailing List: Culture and Cost Housing Re: Affordable Homes at Nomad Cohousing

[Wayne Tyson (landrest]

One would hope that cohousing would lead the way in reducing the cost of 
"housing" whilst simultaneously increasing the quality of alternative ways 
of living.

The cultural context in which so many cohousing "projects" are forced to 
function are based on a given culture's prejudices, both at the governmental 
level and in the psyches of the people themselves. Neither are all that 
receptive to change, to alternatives that challenge their prejudices. Like 
most dynamic systems, adaptation comes from the fringes. A look at the 
history of cohousing reveals a lot.

WT