As someone who is british, I do find the "commune" thing fascinating.
There was a movement in the late 1880s for "settlements" where those of a religious persuasion would raise money to open up a one stop community house (health, food, education etc etc)
However that has almost died out. (There are still missions in south london, but they are run for and by the African diaspora, rather than "the poor")
To see something similar to those settlements alive today is wonderful. I would be very interested to see what the social dynamic is there, how conflict and big decisions are handled.
There a few documentaries on "extreme" communes, but I suspect they are outliers, which is why the TV people were interested in them
There was a movement in the late 1880s for "settlements" where those of a religious persuasion would raise money to open up a one stop community house (health, food, education etc etc)
However that has almost died out. (There are still missions in south london, but they are run for and by the African diaspora, rather than "the poor")
To see something similar to those settlements alive today is wonderful. I would be very interested to see what the social dynamic is there, how conflict and big decisions are handled.
There a few documentaries on "extreme" communes, but I suspect they are outliers, which is why the TV people were interested in them