research-l Mailing List: Re: California Cohousing Communities

[Angela Sanguinetti (angelasanguinetti]

Hi Neil and Maruja,

Neil, The Orchard was on the retrofit cohousing tour when the Coho/US conference was in Oakland. That was my introduction to it. At that time I believe it had only a few families (two of which were related), but I saw on the directory it is now up to 5. Do you know more about it? Do folks think there should be a minimum number of households? Some retrofits in CA are quite small, like The Orchard.

Maruja, Good point. I would need that exclusion criteria if I was starting from a list of all ICs, so I should have clarified my search began on ic.org directory, using "California", "cohousing", and "established" as the criteria. Their "cohousing" category denotes "individual homes within group-owned property" which I think ends up overlapping very little, if at all, with communities who have a shared economy.

One I had previously on my list and begrudgingly removed due to the criteria of identifying as other type of IC is Los Angeles Eco-Village. I see they are signed up for Cohousing Open House Day so I want to put them back in now (as that clearly indicates they identify as "cohousing" in addition to "eco-village"! Any thoughts on that? 

All best and thanks for the feedback!

Angela

Angela Sanguinetti, Ph.D.

Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)

Behavioral Scientist, Consumer Energy Interfaces Lab at UC Davis

Director, Cohousing Research Network

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Maruja Torres <m_torres [at] uncg.edu> wrote:

Angela, do you have any criteria related to the economic aspects of the community, e.g. communities do not have a shared economy/not a co-op?

Maruja

maruja torres-antonini phd, leed bd+c

associate visiting professor | department of interior architecture | the university of north carolina at greensboro

527 highland avenue, greensboro nc 27402 | p: +1 336.334.5320 | e: m_torres [at] uncg.edu 

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Neil Planchon <neil [at] swansway.com> wrote:

Angela, 

Sounds like another interesting project you are working on. I’d love to learn more when you can share more. 

The criteria is same old, same old - no? 

List looks accurate to me.  I was surprised to see “The Orchard” here. What can you tell me about them?

Cordially, 

Neil

On Mar 16, 2016, at 11:55 AM, Angela Sanguinetti <angelasanguinetti [at] gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Cohousing Research Network,

I am involved in some research regarding cohousing communities in California.  I am seeking feedback on our inclusion/exclusion criteria for identifying cohousing communities. 

We excluded communities based on the following: educational centers; focus on a particular religion/spiritual practice; exclusively queer/gay; single individual is leader; self-defined as eco-village, other IC type, or just IC broadly; senior cohousing also excluded because age-exclusivity would be a confounding variable in our particular study. 

First of all, what do you think about these criteria? The resultant list is below. Please let me know if you notice any communities missing or see any you think should be excluded.

All best,

Angela

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Angela Sanguinetti, Ph.D.

Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)

Behavioral Scientist, Consumer Energy Interfaces Lab at UC Davis

Director, Cohousing Research Network

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