Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Affordable housing and cohousing

[sga1 (sga1]

Hi all,

Right now I am developing an affordable co-housing community, but my
situation may be unique: the inclusionary zoning of our town requires that
between 15-25% of a larger development (~130 houses) that we be built in
two years be affordable, and the cohousing group is advocating that our 26
households be the affordable component of the larger development. The
benefit of this is that our development is still self-selected while
recieving a price discount.

However, if your group were to go forward with a HOME grant or 4% or 9%
tax credits to fund your housing, the way to do it would be organize the
community first with people who are elligable to recieve grant funded
housing. As you know, once the funding has been recieved you can't
discriminate against buyers, but while you are organizing the community
you aren't under the purview of any government agency and you can be as
selective as you wish. Then it's just a matter of being first in line to
purchase.

Yours in community,
San




Project Administrator
31 South G Street
Arcata, CA 95521
707.826.1450
sga1 [at] humboldt.edu