Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Low cost housing

[Marganne (marganne]

At 8:05 PM -0500 5/18/08, Dirk Herr-Hoyman wrote:
> Habitat does run by local organizations, so check
> with your local Habitat to see if they might be
> interested in a partership with your Cohousing
> project.

I don't have a Cohousing project for them to partner with.

There are a variety of different levels even to low cost housing 
qualifications. Even though I'm disabled on a fixed income, I don't 
qualify for many available assistance programs because I have more 
than $3,000 in assets.

There's a growing number of people like me who are caught between 
'levels' of low income. If you have any assets, they must be 'spent 
down' before you can qualify.

I haven't checked specifically into Habitat to see if its 
requirements are the same as most I've looked at. It's possible the 
requirements there are different. Right now I've run out of energy to 
get details about more housing programs.

Cheers!
Marganne