Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cohousing at HUD

[Jessie Kome (jehako]

Hi-

Congrats! I know Joanne, and she’s a good person to have interested in 
cohousing. I also work at HUD and am a resident at Eastern Village Cohousing. 
One of my neighbors at EVC, Naomi Friedman, also works at HUD. We are both in 
the part of HUD called Community Planning and Development (CPD). Naomi works on 
sustainable communities and economic resiliency. I work on community 
development, neighborhood stabilization, and disaster recovery. We talk about 
cohousing when we can, and I have talked to FHA colleagues from time to time 
when list members or neighbors have had questions about HUD programs that I 
didn’t know the answers to myself.

As ever, I am not representing my employer in any way on this list (ethics 
thing). 

Jessie Handforth Kome
Eastern Village Cohousing
Silver Spring, MD
“Where the questions of storage for kids’ toys in the courtyard is taking more 
effort (meetings and emails) than anyone but cohousers would understand."