Re: Fwd: the failure of cohousing in the united states | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Fred H Olson (fholsoncohousing.org) | |
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:18:22 -0800 (PST) |
Alberta Maged <albertamaged [at] hotmail.com> is the author of the message below. It was posted by Fred the Cohousing-L list manager <fholson [at] cohousing.org> on request due to a problem posting text (hot html only) from hotmail. -------------------- FORWARDED MESSAGE FOLLOWS -------------------- In this time of the Patriot Act and other modern forms of red-baiting, Raines, your letter veers on the edge, as do some of the other responses. A few weeks back I raised the question of affordability and basically got responses that wished me luck in my research. Now you write in your response to Doug Stambler the following: "If his point on elitism were true, we wouldn't be seeing extensive partnerships between Cohousing professionals and affordable housing developers and government agencies to create permanently affordable housing in communities, or people in communities creatively finding solutions to help one another and break down the barriers. Please, go beyond the myths and stereotypes to see how we're leading the way in this area." I wish you had sent me that response when I wrote a few weeks ago because I would have asked you where these "extensive partnerships" are located. Where are they? Sharon Villines wrote in early November of an experience from years ago of people banding together to pool their very limited resources together to create a form of community/co-housing. Joyce Plath also wrote in early November of being hired by a developer to create the affordable housing component of the Arcata, California development, and she is using co-housing as her form (or model?). I saved these two posted messages because they spoke to the question of community, cohousing community for people with less than the required hundreds of thousands of dollars. I have yet to see on any co-housing web site a unit for $150,000, and never one less than that. There is an attempt to create one here in Massachusetts, but it is stalled at the moment (not due to the organizing committee). Most of us here in the United States live in urban areas and the jobs and housing are in crisis mode. Reading the recent postings does indicate that numbers of folks already in co-housing are in economic difficulties, tho I don't say this is at crisis stage, just that even in your communities you are seeing people who need financial help. Many of the "new" jobs being created are service jobs with correspondingly low wages. Housing is at a critical place, or the lack of it, and while DS may frame his questions outside the current framework of co-housing communities, he's not alone in his concerns. This is an easily accessible list. Do you suggest that there be criteria for those who want to discuss cohousing and limit to only the group you choose. So, once again, I ask where are these extensive partnerships with affordable housing, are they in urban areas, and is affordable in the quarter million dollar range or lower? thank you, bye, Alberta (Somerville, Massachusetts)
- Re: The cost of housing, and therefore cohousing, (continued)
- Re: The cost of housing, and therefore cohousing Sharon Villines, November 20 2004
- RE: The cost of housing, and therefore cohousing Eileen McCourt, November 21 2004
- Re: The cost of housing, and therefore cohousing Sharon Villines, November 21 2004
- Storage - a another view Chris ScottHanson, November 22 2004
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Re: Fwd: the failure of cohousing in the united states Jim Rebman, November 16 2004
- RE: Fwd: the failure of cohousing in the united states Eileen McCourt, November 16 2004
- Affordable Cohousing [was: Fwd: the failure of cohousing ... Fred H Olson, November 16 2004
- Re: Affordable Cohousing [was: Fwd: the failure of cohousing ... James Kacki, November 16 2004
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