Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Truly Capitalist Things

[David Mandel (dlmandel]

There's no reason cohousing communities could not be organized as limited
equity co-ops, in which members own equal undivided shares of the whole
project with a right to occupy their units; or with community land trusts
owning the land. Either way, greater affordability can be assured
permanently -- with different variations on the themes dictating the
degree. The tradeoff is to divorce, in part or fully, actual housing from
speculative investment, apparently a cultural obstacle for most cohousing
communities so far thanks to our psychological conditioning and class
identities. It would be a very good thing in my view, however. Having a
decent, safe roof over one's head is a human right and shouldn't be
commodified for profit. Of course that applies to many other things that
are also privatized in our society. More power to any millenials and any of
us oldsters who aspire to change this.
David L. Mandel, Southside Park Coho, Sacramento

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 11:08 AM, William New <wnew [at] stillcreek.net> wrote:

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> > On Oct 15, 2015, at 3:16 AM, Elizabeth Magill <pastorlizm [at] gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > Home prices are one of those truly capitalist things--the home sells for
> exactly the amount a person is willing to pay for it.
>
> And if we move homes/housing out of the _capitalist_ economy and into the
> _sharing_ economy, what happens then??
>
> Ponder the emerging worldview of Millennials who are shunning personal
> ownership of houses and cars, embracing social sharing (e.g. Uber, AirBnB,
> cooperative financing), and redefining alternative models of career and
> education (to obviate indebtedness) — “co-housing” (largely a product of
> the Boomer culture as we know it) will likely morph to something beyond a
> “truly capitalist thing”.
>
> === Bill
>
> William New
> StillCreek Commons
> 94062-0951
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