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Cohousing and other IC's

I read Umbra's article after it was pointed out on the Cohousing-L email based discussion  ( http://cohousing.org/cohousing-L ) .  Cohousing-L is an active discussion that can be useful to newcomers to the idea, people trying to develop cohousing and those living in cohousing.  It has over 600 folks - some in each of these categories.  It's had over 22,000 messages in the last 13 years.  Check us out.

Another resource that deserves highlighting because they they are so useful is the database(s) of communities.  They can be found via
the http://cohousing.org and http://ic.org
(Currently the cohousing database
is a different presentation of a subset of the
database but will be becoming a separate database.)  They include such information as
loacaion, name, contact, profile etc.

A couple quibbles with the article...
Cohousing is now generally spelled without a dash.

Umbra described residential intentional community.
In many ways this form is most desireable but
it is also the most difficult to create.
There are many more cohousing wannabes than there are people who have succeeded in living in cohousing.

There are other forms some of which I describe as "commuter communities" ; where people intentionally relate to others including communicating and organizing events and
travel some moderate distance to participate.
Of course the net can be very helpful to such communities.  See the 1993 book:
Creating Community Anywhere (available at ic.org)

Fred,  list manager of Cohousing-L

FredOn Umbra on co-housing posted 3 years, 11 months ago 5 Responses