Word: orly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Building one is no cakewalk, however. Sites are difficult to acquire. Prospective residents must spend years in long meetings with architects, bureaucrats and neighborhood groups. They must be willing to put up thousands in advance for units that cost slightly more than mainstream condos. (One-bedroom Southside flats went for...
"The general public has the impression they all died out in the 1960s," says Michael Cummings, a University of Colorado, Denver, political scientist who has studied communes for 17 years. In fact, Cummings estimates, there are now tens of thousands of "intentional communities"--groups of people who reject conventional neighborhoods...
Behind the resurgent interest in such communities is a significant demographic shift. The average household in America is half the size it was at the start of the century. About a quarter of Americans live alone--and many of these are widowed, retired or both. There are also more single...
So far, cohousing construction hasn't kept up with demand. There are 44 projects built in the U.S. and Canada, with 160 soon to be completed and 15,000 people on a list of potential residents. Cohousing units have appreciated or held their value better than comparable homes nearby.
And why do it if you're not going to play hardball now and then? The options, for Bradley, are to indulge an occasional weakness and go wild on Gore, or to stand back from the fray and slowly fall victim to his very strengths.