Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Affordable housing - rentals

[S. Kashdan (skashdan]

On Friday, April 04, 2003 6:53 AM Anna Amato  aamato [at] worldbank.org
of Takoma Village wrote: Re: [C-L]_Affordable housing - rentals

Hmm, so it looks like you have 8 renters out of 62 total residents (includes
everyone) at Jackson Place.  That's about 13%.
Here at Takoma Village we have about 9 renters (renting either rooms or
whole
units) out of about 70 residents*  also about 13%.  So that's quite a bit
above
5%. We have 43 units.  I wonder if our communities are average, or if we are
anomalies.

Takoma Village and Jackson Place are both urban cohousing communities.
Certainly, here in Seattle, a lot of people want to combine living in an
intentional community with living in the heart of the city. The main
obstacle is cost. I am not sure, but that might explain why we have so many
renter residents in proportion to owners and their families. We could
probably have more renters if we had the space for them to rent.

Peace,

Sylvie Kashdan
skashdan [at] scn.org
Jackson Place Cohousing
800 Hiawatha Place South
Seattle, WA 98144
www.seattlecohousing.org


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