Re: FHA Approval | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Kathryn McCamant (kmccamantcohousingpartners.com) | |
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:42:24 -0700 (PDT) |
I fully support any effort to change the governments support for all community oriented housing arrangements! Sign me up! In the meantime, I would still recommend keeping "cohousing" out of your formal legal name it you want access the competitive mortgage rates. Katie -- Kathryn McCamant, President, Architect CoHousing Partners, LLC 241 Commercial Street Nevada City, CA 95959 T.530.478.1970 C.916.798.4755 www.cohousingpartners.com On 3/31/14 10:34 AM, "Sharon Villines" <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> wrote: > > >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 > >_________________________________________________________________ >Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: >http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/ > >
- Re: FHA Approval, (continued)
- 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
- Re: FHA Approval Sharon Villines, April 2 2014
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