Re: FHA Approval | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Sharon Villines (sharonsharonvillines.com) | |
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:34:29 -0700 (PDT) |
On Mar 31, 2014, at 1:10 PM, Kathryn McCamant <kmccamant [at] cohousingpartners.com> wrote: > I would strongly suggest you remove "cohousing" from your legal name as it > will just make it more difficult for your members to get financing.... > Over the many years the community exist.... No matter what happens with > the current discussion with FHA. I strongly disagree with this. Government employees and agencies cannot withhold benefits based on their own personal biases. Only cohousers can correct this by stepping up and say no. Winning this battle will also help other groups that have been discriminated against, so this isn't a privileged middle class fight. The civil rights movement benefitted all of us, not just dark-skinned people. If the national organization doesn't take this on, I don't know what they are good for. A strong statement but I completely believe it. Use CrowdSourcing to up a legal defense fund and do a press campaign. If people can build such unlikely things as cohousing communities, they can certainly take on the FHA and the mortgage system. The government can't hide. I remember when I wasn't allowed to have the gas and electricity hooked up because I was married so my husband had to do it. I couldn't get a credit card in my own name. The telephone company refused to list my name in the telephone directory because it was "dangerous for women." We had no sports and a tiny gym until women got Title IX passed. That stuff didn't change because people changed their names, though some did give their girls traditionally male names. The government couldn't hide behind their excuse that these were private companies and they had no authority. The FHA has NO data on which to base their refusal to guarantee mortgages for cohousing. But we have to prove that to them. Otherwise they continue as they please based on uninformed opinions and not the law. Sharon ---- Sharon Villines, Washington DC "Nothing exists without order. Nothing comes into existence without chaos." Albert Einstein
- Re: FHA Approval, (continued)
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Re: FHA Approval Raines Cohen, March 30 2014
- Re: FHA Approval David L. Mandel, March 30 2014
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Re: FHA Approval Kathryn McCamant, March 31 2014
- Re: FHA Approval Philip Dowds, March 31 2014
- Re: FHA Approval Sharon Villines, March 31 2014
- Re: FHA Approval Kathryn McCamant, March 31 2014
- Re: FHA Approval Kay Wilson Fisk, March 31 2014
- Re: FHA Approval Ann Zabaldo, March 31 2014
- Re: FHA Approval Diana Carroll, April 1 2014
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Re: FHA Approval Raines Cohen, March 30 2014
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