"The tour was one of several this season in different parts of the country
designed to give participants an up-close look at various co-housing
communities, and to address an increasingly common feeling that one pays too
much for one’s home, sees friends too little there and generally lives a more
isolated life than is desirable. These are not new complaints, but the
recession has sharpened them, as it has thrown all large expenditures under
deeper scrutiny."
[permaculture] Co-Housing: another tool to chillax the Beast - nytimes,
Food Forests, 06/11/2009