How will people be recruited for the eco village?
The non profit sponsoring organizations (CRSP, Eco-Home Network, TreePeople?, etc.) have well established constituencies of people interested in eco village types of projects. All of these organizations are fairly prominent in the news and have open membership policies. Anyone with a cooperative and ecological orientation is welcome to sign up for membership in the Los Angeles Mutual Housing Association. Eco Village planners are also talking with people who live in the neighborhoods surrounding the proposed L.A. Eco Village site in the Montecito Heights area. Many of these people have expressed interest on behalf of them selves, relatives, and friends in living in the eco village. Because the L.A. Mutual Housing Association is an on-going organization, it is not restricted to developing housing in the original 11 acre site. Eventually, any one who wants to live in an eco village in the Los Angeles area and is willing to assume the responsibilities of membership will be able to do so.
