Re: Co housing for the working class | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Christopher Moss (chrissaveonsolar.com) | |
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 14:30:05 -0700 (MST) |
Randa, Do you know if Mr. Friedman incorporated solar energy into these homes giving them an off-grid application? * Does he have a web site? Thanks ! Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randa Johnson" <Saranda [at] sarc.org> To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 9:35 AM Subject: Re: [C-L]_Co housing for the working class You migt also want to look into the Grow Home and Next Home concept, developed by Avi Friedman, a professor of architecture in Canada. He has developed a model for inexpensive, energy efficient housing that has been extensively used in Canada. These homes cost 60-100,000$ Canadian ( maybe around $40-70,000 US), and are designed to allow for easy remodeling to accomodate changing household structure. >>> "Robert Waldrop" <rmwj [at] soonernet.com> 03/05 6:10 PM >>> Thanks for this and the other responses, including a number of private emails, I have received. Here is the idea I have in mind. In the late 1970s, Oklahoma City "urban renewalled" a neighborhood right next to downtown called the Deep Deuce. It was the original African American section of town (where they were legally required to live during jim crow segregation), and foolishly, the City Council forced eveyrbody to sell to the city and tore the neighborhood down. Meanwhile, the oil market went south and so did Oklahoma City's economy and here we are more than 20 years later, and it is still a weedy patch of open ground where thousands of people once lived. What if the city made this available to construct a series of co housing cooperative neighborhoods via the Habitat for Humanity program? That organization might not be interested, but its successful principles could be used by a new local organization if that was the case. I think I've read somewhere that some Habitat for Humanity homes were being constructed using some advanced sustainability features like ultra efficient appliances and lots of insulation and weatherization. Such energy conservation features could be incorporated into the project I can also see a network of community gardens and a useful, as well as attractive permacultured landscape. Well anyway, that's this week's crazy idea. Why wouldn't it work, though? There might be a line to get into a neighborhood like that. And it seems to me that it is not beyond belief that foundations would be interested in helping a project like that. Plus it takes advantage of something that working class folks can easily contribute: sweat equity, leveraged by volunteer support. Thanks for listening. But if anybody has some ideas about this, let's talk about them. If this is a departure from the focus of this list, or if it goes over ground that has been trod so much before it would be tedious, I can start a yahoo group or something to focus on this issue. I may write Habitat for Humanity here in OKC a letter about this, but I'd like to have some feedback first. Robert Waldrop, Oklahoma City http://www.bettertimesinfo.org/oklahoma.htm -----Original Message----- From: Rob Sandelin <floriferous [at] msn.com> >Cohousing is based on private home ownership. So if you want to own a home >you have to be able to make a mortgage (10% down and high monthly payments) >or you have to be subsidized in some way. There are a number of cohousing >projects which have been able to get money to subsidize some or all of the >unit owners. But it takes dedication and work, nobody will do it for you. >Some cohousing groups allow for rentals which makes space for non-owners, >and a few places have even set up coops within cohousing, where 3-4 people >co-own a cohousing unit together. _______________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: http://www.communityforum.net/mailman/listinfo/cohousing-l _______________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: http://www.communityforum.net/mailman/listinfo/cohousing-l _______________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: http://www.communityforum.net/mailman/listinfo/cohousing-l
- Re: Non-ownership based Cohousing, (continued)
- Re: Non-ownership based Cohousing Kay Argyle, March 11 2002
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Re: Co housing for the working class Robert Waldrop, March 5 2002
- Re: Co housing for the working class Kate Nichols, March 7 2002
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Re: Co housing for the working class Randa Johnson, March 6 2002
- Re: Co housing for the working class Christopher Moss, March 6 2002
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