Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Sharing Economy/Truly Capitalist

[Kathryn McCamant (kmccamant]

Yarrow EcoVillage, in British Columbia, has a shared house with four
suites (large bedroom and private bathroom), and shared kitchen living
area. I hear it is working well and allows (mostly single) people of
various ages to rent in the community. The key is having a couple
community investors who are willing to own this unit.  I think in the
current conservative lending environment, it would be very challenging to
get loans for the “shares” of a unit like this. In theory, it could be
owned as “tenants in common” but those tend to be messy when people want
to sell their share. Perhaps better to keep it a rental for long term
flexibility and to diversify who can participate in cohousing. From the
plannng department point of view, it is reall just a large home with one
kitchen. From a community point of view, you should probably plan for
their being one car per resident in a shared home, unless you live in a
truly urban environment where people really live car-free.


Katie 
-- 
Kathryn McCamant, President
Nevada City Cohousing and
CoHousing Solutions
241B Commercial Street
Nevada City, CA 95959
T.530.478.1970  C.916.798.4755
www.cohousing-solutions.com







On 10/21/15, 10:55 AM, "Cohousing-L on behalf of Emilie Parker"
<cohousing-l-bounces+kmccamant=cohousing-solutions.com [at] cohousing.org on
behalf of emilie.v.parker [at] gmail.com> wrote:

>
>On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Sharon Villines
><sharon [at] sharonvillines.com>
>wrote:
>
>> As we have discussed before, if we want to have 20-somethings living in
>> cohousing, we need to have rental units. And/or shared living
>>arrangements
>> where young singles can have a private room and bathroom and share other
>> facilities.
>
>
>​If you could get approval for a shared house in cohousing which is not
>the
>case in Boulder County right now, would you design it with a shared
>kitchen
>in addition to the common house kitchen?  Do any cohousing communities
>have
>the shared living arrangements you describe?
>
>
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>Emilie Parker
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