Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Governance & Income Inequality [ was Common house design, rooms, and room sizes?

[Emilie Parker (emilie.v.parker]

It scares me that we are going against your recommendation with this.  How
do you think we can overcome the income inequality issue?



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Emilie Parker
emilie.v.parker [at] gmail.com
303-317-4558 main
240-350-8533 cell

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Emilie Parker <emilie.v.parker [at] gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] 
> sharonvillines.com
> > wrote:
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>> Push comes to shove when people have different aims. That's why I think
>> low income cohousing communities need to be low income cohousing
>> communities and not a mix of low cost units, "affordable" units, and market
>> rate+ units.
>
>
> Yes we'll all have to be on the same page about our values and aims.
>
> "Affordable" is through programs administered by the county to assist
> people who qualify and are selected.  County guidelines for incomes have to
> be something like between 20,000 and $45,000 per year for one person family
> to qualify for that.  Other resident's incomes will probably be easily in
> the twice that range.
>
> Our aim is to build our lives sustainably with an art focus and I think we
> probably need to have an agreed upon strategy for dealing with income
> inequality going into this as part of our values.  I'm not sure what that
> would look like.
>
> One strategy we've discussed for physical structures is to build the homes
> with lower cost fixtures and amenities, but very good net 0 construction.
> Once we get occupancy approvals artists who are homeowners are free to
> invest in their own homes and have their homes upgraded at any time or do
> whatever upgrades and improvements or replacements they want.
>
>
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> Emilie Parker
> emilie.v.parker [at] gmail.com
> 303-317-4558 main
> 240-350-8533 cell
>