research-l Mailing List: Re: California Cohousing Communities

[Neil Planchon (neil]

I know that The Orchard’s residents want a private life. I see that Coho/US has 
not added them to our directory - probably for those reasons.  Maybe others. 
Not sure.  I did find an entry in the FIC’s directory though here 
http://www.ic.org/directory/the-orchard/#Membership

Nomad (Boulder, CO) has 9 households and to date has been the most compact true 
Cohousing community, I have know about. I am committed to the classic criteria.

Los Angeles Eco-Village (LAEV) which I have visited 3-4 times to the best of my 
knowledge does meet the classic criteria. I have not heard them call themselves 
a Cohousing community.

That’s all I have for now
Neil
Swan's Market Cohousing (http://www.swansway.com)


> On Mar 16, 2016, at 1:32 PM, Angela Sanguinetti <angelasanguinetti [at] 
> gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
>> 
>> <image.png>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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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