Re: Governance & Income Inequality [ was Common house design, rooms, and room sizes? | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Emilie Parker (emilie.v.parkergmail.com) | |
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 06:30:42 -0800 (PST) |
That seems like a healthy solution. ----------------- Emilie Parker emilie.v.parker [at] gmail.com 303-317-4558 main 240-350-8533 cell On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 6:50 AM, R Philip Dowds <rpdowds [at] comcast.net> wrote: > > First off, a couple of things I recommend (based not so much on cohousing > experience, but rather life experience): > Don’t presume you know much about any household’s finances. Some > households that complain consistently about expenses actually have more > financial flexibility than they let on. While other households hanging on > by their fingernails suffer assessments in silence, trying to maintain > their standing, privacy and dignity. > Don’t invent a system that requires you to obtain evidence about a > household’s financial standing (like, for instance, a review of tax > returns). You absolutely do NOT want to go anywhere near making communal > judgments that Household X can, or can not, “afford” something. > Having said all that … At Cornerstone Cohousing, we believe (not know for > sure, but believe) that a few of our households are indeed operating within > very strict budgetary limits. And these are not necessarily the ones in > our official, public-run “affordable” units. > > Even so, a couple of years ago we agreed on about $67K (appx $2,000 per > unit) of discretionary capital improvements, and funded them as follows: > 25% of the cost was levied as a mandatory special assessment on each > unit. This was actually adopted by consensus. > The remaining 75% was requested as a voluntary “fair share” payment. > Basically, we said, We’re all in this together, and we all should > contribute our fair share unless severe financial hardship results. We > left it to each household to determine on its own what “severe” meant. > Results? > Most households just wrote out a check for 100%. (This is why you should > not presume your neighbors are broke.) > A few households set up a multi-year time payment plan for their 100%. > And, > One household said, We really just can’t pay in full — and then wrote a > check for 50%. > The projects are now mostly complete. And a good time was had by all. > > RPD > > > > > On Feb 9, 2015, at 9:24 PM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> > wrote: > > > > I don't want to pretend to be an expert on income inequality in > residential groups. Other communities have followed various budgeting > strategies to set up voluntarily graduated condo fees. Perhaps they will > speak up. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/ > > >
- Re: Governance & Income Inequality [ was Common house design, rooms, and room sizes?, (continued)
- Re: Governance & Income Inequality [ was Common house design, rooms, and room sizes? Emilie Parker, February 9 2015
- Re: Governance & Income Inequality [ was Common house design, rooms, and room sizes? Moz, February 9 2015
- Re: Governance & Income Inequality [ was Common house design, rooms, and room sizes? Jerry McIntire, February 10 2015
- Re: Governance & Income Inequality [ was Common house design, rooms, and room sizes? R Philip Dowds, February 10 2015
- Re: Governance & Income Inequality [ was Common house design, rooms, and room sizes? Emilie Parker, February 10 2015
- Re: Governance & Income Inequality [ was Common house design, rooms, and room sizes? Elizabeth Magill, February 10 2015
- Re: Governance & Income Inequality [ was Common house design, rooms, and room sizes? R Philip Dowds, February 10 2015
- Re: Governance & Income Inequality [ was Common house design, rooms, and room sizes? Emilie Parker, February 11 2015
- Re: Governance & Income Inequality [ was Common house design, rooms, and room sizes? Emilie Parker, February 11 2015
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