Re: Rental homes, rent-to-own arrangements and affordable cohousing. | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: KJ (pumpkin2282yahoo.com) | |
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 12:33:56 -0700 (PDT) |
This sounds like a great model, making ooh using more of a possibility for those of us who are not wealthy! Sent from my iPad On Aug 8, 2013, at 10:47 AM, Fred H Olson <fholson [at] cohousing.org> wrote: > > "Dyer, Carolyn S" <carolyn-dyer [at] uiowa.edu> > is the author of the message below. It was posted by > Fred, the Cohousing-L list manager <fholson [at] cohousing.org> > after deleting quoted digest. > -------------------- FORWARDED MESSAGE FOLLOWS -------------------- > > Iowa City Cohousing which unfortunately is in the cold north, is > currently planning the buildings for our 7-acre site. Our aim is to > be as diverse in membership as we possibly can be. Our modest units > will range from 600 to 1,800 square feet. and will be similar in > design so we can get economies of scale in building. We expect our > units to earn LEED certification and the whole community to be as > sustainable as possible. We have applied for and received funds to > make it possible for 10 percent of our units to be "affordable" > workforce housing with down payment subsidies and mortgage assistance. > People making up to about 80 percent of the local median income will > be eligible for these funds. As others have written, rentals will not > be possible unless a home owner goes on leave for a while and rents > his or her unit during the interim. > > Carolyn Stewart Dyer > _________________________________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/ > >
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Rental homes, rent-to-own arrangements and affordable cohousing. Fred H Olson, August 8 2013
- Re: Rental homes, rent-to-own arrangements and affordable cohousing. KJ, August 8 2013
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