Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Sliding Fees

[Elaina Snyder (elaina624]

i haven't been following the discussion but i read the
headliner so opened your mail.  My situation is that I
am on social security disability, very interested in
co-housing.  I'm interested in paying 30% of my
monthly income in rent so that I can afford other
things as well, like car and food.....So far, I
haven't found a co-housing community able to
accomodate someone on the low wages of disability.  In
my case I make 570 a month.....I will be capable of
working part time after a few months recovery time in
a healthy environment......I can also do some
bartering......I'm open to any and all feedback. Thank
You
--- Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> wrote:
> 
> On 9/30/2003 1:13 PM, "ann [at] slac.com" <ann [at] slac.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > professions.  So...while I cannot agree with
> subsidizing someone else's
> > lack of effort, I could see how a larger cohousing
> community (maybe one big
> > enough to include a charter school or a roving
> French teacher or some such
> > thing) might choose to reassess the value of
> certain members' efforts by
> > providing a sliding scale or other subsidy.  It
> would be up to the
> > community to decide, right?
> 
> One of my concerns about this is that the same
> people in our community who
> think we should subsidize some people, do not want
> anything quantified or
> recorded. I'm happy with a decision to subsidize but
> I want to know who is
> being subsidized for what reason and to what extent.
> In other words, I want
> it all above board and acknowledged. Transparency
> and accountability.
> 
> If Sally is out of work and cannot pay her condo fee
> for 6 months and needs
> an interest free loan for that money, I'm happy to
> oblige but I want it
> known that it is 6 months, that it is Sally, and
> that it is an interest free
> loan, not a gift. Or if it is a gift, that it is a
> gift.
> 
> If this is a option in our community, I want that
> known also. Is Sally
> getting this option because she is pushy or because
> she knows the person
> keeping the books while Sarah may be just as
> strapped and out of work but
> would move out before she would ask for help?
> 
> These are the issues that make sliding fees much
> more difficult to
> accommodate than believing that the rich should pay
> more.
> 
> Sharon
> -- 
> Sharon Villines
> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
> 
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