"This plan will channel billions of dollars in private investment into purpose-built rental construction, provide resources to the non-profit and co-operative housing sector to increase non-profit housing, remove bottlenecks that are slowing down construction and immediately support those who are experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless with expanded housing benefits."

👇Link to full plan

https://www.nationalhousingaccord.ca/

#canada #housing #rentalCrisis #ODSP #intentionalCommunities

Happy joyous and free is my natural state.
I trust the process of my life. I really have a lot good going on. I ask for protection from convoluted perceptions, manipulative tendencies, and hate. I wish this for me and everyone in the world. #MentalHeath #intentionalcommunities #positivepatsy

This piece on contemporary almshouses is interesting but misses some points.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/22/affordable-and-stress-free-how-almshouses-are-the-unsung-heroes-of-uk-social-housing

There are various modern successors to almshouses. One is cohousing, either for older people or mixed age communities. It's perhaps closer to the Flemish begijnhof in concept, more collaborative and less paternalistic than an almshouse.

https://newgroundcohousing.uk/
https://cohousing.org.uk/
#cohousing #housing #ShelteredHousing #IntentionalCommunities

An example of social housing in Vancouver: Mole Hill.
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMYHf3NWc/
"Mole Hill is governed by the Mole Hill Community Housing Society, and contains 170 social housing suites, three daycares, a group home and a host of community assets, set in a park-like environment. The Society has been recognized for achievements in heritage conservation, construction, landscaping and the provision of social housing."
https://www.mole-hill.ca/
#IntentionalCommunities #Solarpunk

☝️There's still one day to vote on this survey re convalescent centric communities and collaborative care.

So if you are tired or struggling for any reason, anywhere, drop a vote and maybe a comment. We are still at blue sky thinking here, but we're all falling through care gaps, maybe it's time to catch each other instead.

I will designate the tag #convalescentCommunities as a gathering place to plan/hope.

#spoonies #housing #care #radicalSocialWork #intentionalCommunities #socialJustice

Oh, by the way; if the idea of moving into or creating an intentional community/commune appeals to you as a reaction to current situation or because someone else is suggesting it…. Don’t. Ask anyone who’s ever lived it and left it; it’s not Utopia. Think: scams, cults, abuses, emotionally intense, isolation, small group politics. But, if you’re hankering for a Jim Jones experience…. Anyway, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
#IntentionalCommunities #ThereAreBadIdeasAndThenThereAreReallyBadIdeas

@woozle Oof! That's a lot. You must be exhausted. Thank you so much for taking the time to share a window into your daily life. I think more people can relate to that than you would expect.

Caregiver burnout is real. And particularly hard on someone like you who is trying to manage their own obstacles as well.

And just the economics of living independently are out of reach to a lot of ppl. #intentionalCommunities are starting to fill that gap but it is early days.

*hugs*

I have a dream. A dream where people with long illness etc can convalescence somewhere lightly supported where we are well fed, and can rest, walk, stretch, nap as much as we need to. A community where we share tips, experiences, humour, and companionship.

Kinda like a hospice, but for people who need help living. Or an intentional household with shared supports.

Interested?
#chronicIllness #longCovid #intentionalCommunities #heathCARE #pots #MEcfs #chronicPain #disability #burnout #ODSP

"going to find the others":
cool project & newsletter exploring #IntentionalCommunities today, from @alexdw5
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RT @alexdw5
Some initial thoughts on "going to find the others", in the context of finding intentional communities to visit/join/other possibly even to build

https://thingsthatshouldexist.substack.com/p/go-find-the-others
https://twitter.com/alexdw5/status/1615478357373734918

A further resonance between the [ #IntentionalCommunities ] movement and anarchism resides in the idea and practice of networked federation. The best known anarchist proponent of federalism was Proudhon. Many other anarchists have based visions on the idea of small and diverse self-governing communities associated through networks and loose associations, forming non-coercive organizations to communicate. Federation is a partial response to the issue of scale. Many aspects of anarchism, for example, decentralized production, affinity, community and limits on authority, require communities not to expand over a certain size. Federation in anarchism means that ‘the basic idea is to reproduce the collective, not expand it’. The principle of small-scale communities is also espoused by eco-anarchists such as Leopold Kohr who anticipated the deep-ecology movement’s preoccupation with bioregions and decentralization through his promotion of ‘human scale’ and small communal life. The issue of size and scale is also important in utopian studies. John P. Clark argues that the dominant utopia is based on a fantasy of innate superpower that ‘drives relentlessly toward the destruction of all diversity and complexity’ in the name of progress, whilst anarchist utopias are experimental and connect the rich specificity of ‘sense of place’ with diverse cultures and ecosystems. Tom Moylan also argues that whilst top-down, totalitarian utopias assume a singular jurisdiction over a very large area, critical utopianism assumes a proliferation of diverse small-scale experiments, calling for an ‘alliance of margins without a centre’.

Many intentional communities practice federation through the organization Radical Routes. Radical Routes is ‘a network of radical co-ops whose members are committed to working for positive social change’. Four times a year, nominated members will attend a gathering at which issues affecting cooperatives will be discussed, such as national laws and policies, and new applications to join, as well as issues facing groups financial need (Radical Routes can provide loans). The organization’s purpose is to provide ‘a form of structured mutual aid’ that is ‘about people taking control of their own housing, work, education and leisure activities’. In a very real and practical sense, intentional communities, networked through #RadicalRoutes, are engaged in renewing society from the grassroots, here-and-now, as called for by anarchists like Buber and Landauer. . . .

#RhiannonFirth

“[ #IntentionalCommunities ] are about creating attachment, the feeling that someone has your back,” says Harvard University psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, a decades-old survey of the health of a population of Harvard graduates and their descendants. “We often ask people in studies, ‘Who would you call in the middle of the night if you were really sick or scared?’ Intentional communities can help you have an answer to that question.”

It’s not easy to come by a firm count of how many intentional communities are out there. Only about 160 of them have been built from the ground up with co-housing in mind, but the regularly updated Fellowship for Intentional Community lists 1,539 communities in all 50 states that have also used existing housing stock to establish co-housing arrangements. . ."

https://time.com/intentional-communities/

#Simplicity and #nonviolence is at the foundation of a number of spiritual traditions. But what does that mean in practice?

"Living sustainability: What #IntentionalCommunities can teach us about democracy, simplicity and #nonviolence" (2017) by A Whitney Sanford https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20160997W/Living_Sustainably?edition=key%3A/books/OL34069253M explores what happens when secular communities come together around these themes.

#BookReview

So….I thought I would post some hashtags that I can pin to my profile:
#ebikes #sciencefiction #coffee #frenchpress #fantasybooks #UrbanFantasy #eclecticmusic #intentionalcommunities #zenbuddhism #hardcorezen #Recovery #foodies #cycling #meditation #kindness #exercise

We were able to keep #covid out for nearly 2 years, and at first it felt like a huge blessing to be able to keep sharing space when the rest of the world was living in such drastically changed circumstances. But now... I'm noticing more all the ways that we haven't learned to adapt. #IntentionalCommunities

Hi! I'm a #ClimateScientist who has become fascinated by community building for co-creation of common digital resources to support #research #data harmonization -- I want researchers to talk with each other to figure out the language that will allow their data to talk. I’m also human and am interested in #IntentionalCommunities, connecting with the local #bushcraft community, planning a 800-mile #bicycling tour, and supporting my local #polyamory community. #introduction #TwitterMigration

i'd be curious to explore the cross-applications between experience-based community knowledge surrounding the function, health, self-governance, and racial politics of intentional communities, social clubs, and mutual aid groups with something like the fediverse.

#IntentionalCommunity #IntentionalCommunities #MutualAid #Fediverse

Relisting the interests hashtags because I'd forgotten the thing about CamelCase helping screen readers...

#Cycling #ActiveTravel #Sustainability #RenewableEnergy #Urbanism #IntentionalCommunities #Sailing #HomeEducation #Unschooling #Neurodiversity

So I guess it's #introduction time.

Based in Cheltenham, UK.

Chartered #MechanicalEngineer, currently taking time out to be a full-time parent and home educator to two kids.

Self-dx #ADHD, currently trying to psych myself up for the ordeal of trying to make it "official".

A random list of interests (not necessarily "areas of expertise"):

#cycling #activetravel #sustainability #renewableenergy #urbanism #intentionalcommunities #sailing #homeeducation #unschooling #neurodiversity

Living in an #intentionalcommunity for several years and highly recommend it as a way to live communally. It might not suit everyone but it is a valid option in opposition to the ‘normalised’ way of having to be a homeowner or private sector renter. Unpicking ‘homeowner’ and the reality is really a ‘house owner’, an owner of bricks and mortar, as distinct from owning a ‘home’.
For the UK, you can find out more through Diggers and Dreamers.
https://diggersanddreamers.org.uk/
#intentionalcommunities

#Sociocracy in
#IntentionalCommunities
conference 2022 (online)

Saturday 19/11/2022

This is going to be great! 😁👍🏽

Who's interested too?

https://www.sociocracyforall.org/intentional-communities-conference-2022/