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How community shrinkage threatens the viability of shared living

Our cohousing community started with twelve households but now we're down to four and the remaining families can't afford to maintain the common spaces and shared facilities alone.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The economic model of intentional communities often depends on full participation and becomes unsustainable when membership declines.

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“Where Are You with Cohousing and intentional living?”

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