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Raines Cohen
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Cohousing, #AgingInCommunity, BMUG, EcoVillages and beyond.
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Cohousing Movement @cohousing.in · Apr 28
National #cohousing week is underway! Join the free #CohoUS national virtual gathering starting shortly on East Coast communities (VT/Mid-Atlantic) plus Research, and different regions/topics every day this week, plus open houses everywhere this weekend. www.cohousing.org/open-house-2...
National Cohousing Week: Virtual Events + Open Houses April 28 - May 4, 2025; Open House Weekend May 3&4 - NationWide, Virtual & In-Person
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Apr 4
The Trump administration abruptly laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across the U.S. pay their heating and cooling bills.
Entire Staff Is Fired at LIHEAP
The move threatens to paralyze the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps to offset high utility bills for roughly 6.2 million people nationwide.
www.nytimes.com
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Raines Cohen @raines.bsky.social · Mar 9
@nationbuilder.bsky.social nice to see you here. So when are we getting #bsky integration with NB registration/forms?
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Raines Cohen @raines.bsky.social · Feb 19
I used to live in the featured built #cohousing community in Oakland (nice to see my then-neighbor Michael still at it); the other is forming just down the road in Fremont. More on regional opportunities on East Bay Cohousing www.ebcoho.org
EBCOHO
Connecting Cooperative Community Living Opportunities in 510/925
www.ebcoho.org
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Raines Cohen @raines.bsky.social · Feb 17
@sky-follower-bridge.dev thanks for the great product! Note that for Private Twitter accounts (where you approve followers) it can be useful to migrate both the Followers and Following lists.
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Raines Cohen @raines.bsky.social · Feb 17
My BlueSky feed has instantly become interesting and rich once I migrated my Twitter followers using Sky Follower Bridge. Make sure you use the linked free tool, not the paid service that hijacked the name. www.sky-follower-bridge.dev
Sky Follower Bridge
Instantly find and follow the same users from your 𝕏 followers on Bluesky
www.sky-follower-bridge.dev
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · Jan 14
p 137. Final sentence of report: "but for Mr. Trump's election and imminent return to the presidency, the office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial."
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Pedro Lund @itspedrolund.bsky.social · Jan 11
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · Jan 10
Wow. I am surprised
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Jan 10
NEW: The Supreme Court REFUSES to halt Trump’s criminal sentencing tomorrow by a 5-4 vote, with Roberts and Barrett joining the liberals.

Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh dissent.
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Raines Cohen @raines.bsky.social · Dec 24
The main issue for me is that the archived label doesn't show in search results.
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Raines Cohen @raines.bsky.social · Dec 24
Thanks, I've found that issue on some other imported Twitter feeds, too bad we can't preserve the date/time stamps. Bsky needs a tag saying so assigned to all such imports. Great to see you here, anyways!
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Raines Cohen @raines.bsky.social · Dec 24
getting a 404 there. Excited to see #cohousing back on the radar after the vision you had over a decade ago. What's the latest scoop?
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Raines Cohen @raines.bsky.social · Dec 24
So have you moved in? Which #cohousing community? How's it going?
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Raines Cohen @raines.bsky.social · Dec 24
Ah, Shepherd Village. I've gotten to visit a couple times. www.shepherdvillage.net
Shepherd Village
www.shepherdvillage.net
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Raines Cohen @raines.bsky.social · Dec 24
I got to visit Green Grove Cohousing after the 2019 national cohousing conference, truly a lovely small neighborhood not far from Portland. greengrovecoho.org
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Raines Cohen @raines.bsky.social · Dec 1
You're quite right: most US #cohousing are legally condominiums. But with all homeowners on the board and operating by consensus, we aren't suing each other, instead taking time to listen and together find win-win solutions to get our needs met. Shared green values lead to solar economies of scale.
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Raines Cohen @raines.bsky.social · Dec 1
99% of people living in #cohousing neighborhoods own their own homes, usually legally condominiums. Except we're all on the board and run it by consensus, worrying less about enforcing conformity and preserving property values and more about using the structure to take care of each other.
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Raines Cohen @raines.bsky.social · Dec 1
One of the early #cohousing movement bumper stickers was "Re-creating an old-fashioned neighborhood." In many ways this isn't new at all, just going back to what we've lost along the way in the hyper-focus on individual/nuclear family/wealth accumulation/"flipping" etc.
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Raines Cohen @raines.bsky.social · Dec 1
My home community was great for COVID: we stopped indoor common meals for a while, separated into social "pods," provided "defense in depth" by taking care of shopping for vulnerable seniors, and eventually set up high-quality ventilation. To this day we've had no spread between households.
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Raines Cohen @raines.bsky.social · Dec 1
Nope, in #cohousing we all have our own separate privately-owned homes (typically condos, legally), our own jobs ("no community-run business" is in the definition), and in the US the typical coho user is middle-class, hyper-civic, over-educated, research says. We love communes, but this ain't that.
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Raines Cohen @raines.bsky.social · Dec 1
Link-y goodness: www.daybreakcohousing.org
Daybreak Cohousing – Multigenerational cohousing in Portland, Oregon
www.daybreakcohousing.org
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Raines Cohen @raines.bsky.social · Dec 1
There's something to be said for that, but the stereotype "a bunch of like-minded people" can be misleading and even harmful. Diversity gives us resilience, capacity, and new ways 2 learn from and inspire each other as we solve the problems of daily life together. Together, we build common language.
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Raines Cohen @raines.bsky.social · Dec 1
Believe it or not, studies have found that we have a majority of #introverts living in #cohousing! As one of them, having community easily accessible and visible makes it easy to participate when I choose to do so, but I can always come home and close my door and do my own thing to recharge.
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Raines Cohen @raines.bsky.social · Dec 1
but did your dorm have separate homes with their own kitchens? Individual homeownership? Residents leading and managing the process of creating and running them?
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Raines Cohen @raines.bsky.social · Dec 1
Well, we've learned from communes and, as the #cohousing pioneers in Denmark said, "maybe we can have a little more privacy as we raise a family," find that right mix of your own home PLUS common space, your own kitchen AND one in the Common House, so that community is available but always a choice.
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