D.C.'s ‘intentional communities’ put strangers in a house joined by core values

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Christopher Kindig
  • September 12, 2013

“Laird Schaub, executive secretary of the Foundation for Intentional Community, said there’s been a boomlet in intentional living since about 2005. […]

People “say there has been more alienation and fragmentation, more divisiveness and tension, less sense of neighborliness than when they grew up,” he said. “The reason [the homes] are important is because in intentional communities we are learning about or recovering the ability to get along with one another and solve problems.”

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-08-31/local/41642447_1_intentional-communities-intentional-community-core-values

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