Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Inexpensive Cohousing

[Kevin Wolf (kjwolf]

Sharon
By single room occupancy do you mean people renting rooms in a house 
together and sharing kitchen and baths?  We have four of these at N Street 
and are intending on building more as granny flat additions to existing 
houses.  They are all rentals with landlords either absentee or on 
site.  The community holds the master lease and subleases.  The landlords 
love their arrangement with us, they never have lost rental income or 
problem tenants.  Seems that any cohousing community could find an 
investor, preferably among potential members, to build rental units.  We 
think rental units are a real asset to our community bringing 3-5 great new 
people in every year.
Kevin

At 10:09 AM 11/1/00 -0600, you wrote:
>There is also a need for single room occupancy housing that would fit very
>nicely into a cohousing model. The problem is up front financing. Most
>people in the coho movement have barely enough money for their own houses.
>The task needs financing or government funding acceptance.
>
>Sharon
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