Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Community Associations Institute [was Launching June 15: CohousingMap.net

[R Philip Dowds (rpdowds]

How is CAI funded?

Thanks,
RPD

> On Jun 17, 2016, at 9:40 AM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 17, 2016, at 7:54 AM, R Philip Dowds <rpdowds [at] comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>> But … is there a national condominium movement?  That is, an organized body 
>> of advocates and practitioners who believe that condominiums are the right 
>> way to live, and that (most) everyone should be living in condominiums?  Is 
>> there a national condominium association promoting condo life, and trying to 
>> draw people in, proselytizing the concept like a church or conservation 
>> group?  If there is, it is unknown to me.
> 
> I don’t know that they think of themselves as a movement, but the Community 
> Associations Institute is the go-to place for housing governed by an 
> association of owners. They have many local chapters. It’s an incredible 
> resource that cohousers long resisted using because they “weren’t 
> condominiums. They were communities.”
> 
> https://www.caionline.org