Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Area desireability in developing cohousing

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

> On Sep 15, 2015, at 9:56 AM, Fred H Olson <fholson [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
> 
> BTW it seems to me that we now have lots of pros that can help
> with development.  Do we have comparable help with recruiting people,
> particularly an initial core group?  Some (many?) of us dont posees the
> skills and personality to be good recruiters.

I think recruiting people is something that has to be done by the people 
involved. It’s a person to person activity.

Prairie Spruce Cohousing has taken another approach. As soon as they achieved 
almost critical mass, they said we build in March 2016 and however many units 
are sold, we build. Their website proclaims loudly: A unit sold is a unit built.

http://prairiespruce.com

Something similar might be possible in other circumstances. This is what we 
have; what can we do with that? 

Maybe we need a concept of “starter communities.” Small communities that then 
grow and even spin off new communities.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Sociocracy: A Deeper Democracy
http://www.sociocracy.info