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This is a list of intentional communities. An intentional community is a planned residential community designed from the start to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, or spiritual vision and often follow an alternative lifestyle.
Community Service, Inc. was created in 1940 to advocate for the resurgence of the idealistic small-town family life, while the later Fellowship of Intentional Communities was created as an association of the full range of communitarian societies, including: secular or religious communities, communal societies, co-operative communities, and ...
Dearfield, Colorado was a black homestead colony in Weld county on the short grass prairie near the South Platte river. Oliver T. Jackson established the Negro Townsite and Land Compan and founded the farming community in 1910. Nineteen settlers arrived in 1911, and their first winter was extremely difficult.
African Americans in the United States have a unique history of homesteading, in part due to historical discrimination and legacies of enslavement. Black American communities were negatively impacted by the Homestead Act's implementation, which was designed to give land to those who had been enslaved and other underprivileged groups. The act ...
Twin Oaks Community is an ecovillage [2] and intentional community of about one hundred people [3] living on 450 acres (1.8 km 2) in Louisa County, Virginia. [4] [5] It is a member of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities. [6] Founded in 1967, [7] it is one of the longest-enduring and largest secular intentional communities in North America ...
In response to the Great Depression, the Subsistence Homesteads Division was created by the federal government in 1933 with the aim to improve the living conditions of individuals moving away from overcrowded urban centers while also giving them the opportunity to experience small-scale farming and home ownership. [6]
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In 2015 the City of Houston Trinity/Houston Gardens Super Neighborhood had 15,798 residents. 77% were non-Hispanic black, 30% were Hispanic, 2% were non-Hispanic white, and 1% were non-Hispanic others.