Re: defining the cohousing principle | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Kevin Wolf (kjwolfdcn.davis.ca.us) | |
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 23:53:59 -0600 (MDT) |
At 06:08 PM 04/13/00 -0500, Tara Ingram wrote: >Here's an example similar to what you describe in Davis, CA. > >http://www.cohousing.org/Groups/n_street/ Hi all Roger Berman did a fairly good job of listing actions and parameters that help advance affordable cohousing. He left off a couple of items. 1. Use less land per house. Muir Commons was able to provide affordable units in part because it is ten units per acre. N Street Cohousing is pursuing second story granny flats as a means of making the homes that come up for sale affordable. Home prices are going up very fast in town and tenants in the community are trying to buy the absentee landlord owned homes. With the most recent house that was bought, two renters went in as partners and got the bank to loan them enough money to double the size of the original house (1125 sq ft) by adding an 1125 sq foot granny flat. Now two units sit on the same amount of land. Over time, we anticipate increasing the number of units in the community by 50% without expanding on any new land. 2. Rent in a retrofit community. Roger mentioned renting as a means of creating affordability. In N Street, almost every house was a rental before being bought. Most of us rented out rooms in our houses when we bought them to help pay for the mortgage. Because we offer landlords very stable and excellent renters, everyone has been willing to rent for significantly less than market. The bad news is that some have been lax about fixing their homes as much as we would like, and it is more difficult to buy from them because their renter situation is so good. Kevin Kevin Wolf N Street Cohousing Community member 724 N St, Davis, CA 95616 530-758-4211 kjwolf [at] dcn.davis.ca.us To download my facilitation manual or other material on consensus decision making, visit www.dcn.davis.ca.us/go/kjwolf
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