Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Coho impact on neighborhood ?

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

> On Apr 12, 2016, at 5:09 AM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> The bigger impact, as others have said, is that we brought a new wave of 
> professionals and socially conscious people to the neighborhood. The first 
> wave had been in the late 1960s and early 1970s when young professionals 
> moved in to rehab the old bungalows and Victorians. (They are now the old 
> guard.)

This is not to say that there were none before. The neighborhood is a very 
diverse, well-organized neighborhood that includes many city leaders. We didn’t 
raise the bar. We were just a younger wave.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org