Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: house location selection

[James Ausman (ausman]

I live in a three story flat where they used a "market" approach to 
decide who got which flat. There are three floors and when the price
was equal, everyone wanted the top floor. At a different price, everyone
wanted the bottom (cheapest) floor. They adjusted the prices of the flats
until everyone was satisfied with the result. Well, maybe "satisfied" is
a little too strong, but everyone agreed it was fair. Everytime Bobby,
who lives on the bottom floor, comes up to visit, he comments on what a
nice, sunny flat we live in!

I am not advocating this necessarily, and think it would get more complicated
the more units involved, but this is an approach that worked for them.

Jim Ausman