Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cohousing dues vs. HOA dues

[Diana E Carroll (dianaecarroll]

In Mosaic Commons, we do this because we were required to.  25% of our 
homes are "affordable housing" through our state's department of 
housing.  As part of the (many! complicated!) negotiations that went 
into the final agreement about this, we agreed that belonging to the HOA 
was required for all residents, but that belonging to the "cohousing 
group" was optional for affordable home-buyers.

The other reasons is because part of our agreed on vision includes 
sliding scale fees.  For various legal reasons, we could not have the 
base HOA fees be variable -- they are permanently tied to home square 
footages.  Our cohousing dues, on the other hand, are on a sliding 
scale, so at least SOME of our expense structure can follow our original 
vision, even though not all of it does.

- Diana

On 10/27/2009 8:38 PM, Doug Huston wrote:
> I believe some cohousing communities divide up their dues into two
> categories.
> One category being "typical" HOA dues including insurance,
> maintenance, reserves, other associated physical infrastructure costs,
> etc.
> The second category possibly included child care, workshops/trainings,
> parties, garden, etc. The second category are costs more linked to
> cohousing&  community.
> I am wondering why the cohousing communities that divide the dues do
> so. It seems to me that it is all part of the cohousing community you
> live in, so what are the reasons for this? Thanks.
>
> Doug Huston - Ashland Cohousing Community in Oregon
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