Re: City and municipal zoning and laws. | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Tom Smyth (tomtomsmyth.ca) | |
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 14:10:23 -0800 (PST) |
Hear hear. Great points Brian. I look forward to this workshop and would love to see this covered as well. And how about retro-fit cohousing? Do local laws come into play there? I know little about it but it seems crucial to scaling the movement... On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 3:59 PM Brian Bartholomew via Cohousing-L < cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote: > Dean, > > Please consider taking a wider view, and survey laws which affect > approaches other than the usual dense suburban look for $400K/unit. > > For instance, will the local development-plan-approver allow less > expensive developments which depress existing housing resale prices by > creating competing alternatives? > > There are many approaches to construction which can build > incrementally over 10-20 years with less loans: > > State park-ish style with centralized bathroom, laundry, > kitchen. Bare lots with electricity and telco but not fresh > water or sewer yet. > > Trailer park style with yucky old trailers; with RVs; with > brand new LEED Katrina cottages. > > Suburban neighborhood style with water and sewer buried under > road, but cheaper roads: dirt or limerock instead of pavement, > no storm drains, sidewalks, streetlights, curbs. > > These housing styles may not be your preference. However, some people > need a cheaper approach, as cost of living is being inflated from 7% > to 13%. These numbers are calculated from price tags of common items: > > http://www.chapwoodindex.com/ > > > At the state or federal level, why not seek to have government loan > > guarantees for cohousing? > > As we've seen with university tuition, if you make a broad government > guarantee of loans then institutions will raise prices to consume > those guarantee amounts. The cost to the consumer will grow much > faster than even the rest of the cost of living is being grown. To > really make it unaffordable, make the debts non-dischargable in > bankruptcy like student loans are. Then there's even less risk to the > lenders, and the loans which are poorly justified by future earnings > potential will be even bigger. > > Obviously, a government program which taxes money from an upper-middle > class person and gives it back to them as a housing subsidy has > produced no wealth. Instead, it has consumed wealth to administrate > that program. A mechanism like Kickstarter is far more democratic, as > the opinions about what results would be a net wealth increase are > being made by every person who pays in, not just legislators. > > Brian > _________________________________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > http://L.cohousing.org/info > > > > -- Tom Smyth Worker-Owner, Sassafras Tech Collective Specializing in innovative, usable tech for social change sassafras.coop · @sassafrastech
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City and municipal zoning and laws. Dean smith, January 16 2019
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Re: City and municipal zoning and laws. Brian Bartholomew, January 16 2019
- Re: City and municipal zoning and laws. Tom Smyth, January 16 2019
- Re: City and municipal zoning and laws. Ann Lehman, January 16 2019
- Re: City and municipal zoning and laws. Tom Smyth, January 16 2019
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Re: City and municipal zoning and laws. Brian Bartholomew, January 16 2019
- Re: City and municipal zoning and laws. Tom Smyth, January 16 2019
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