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

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

> On Oct 21, 2015, at 1:55 PM, Emilie Parker <emilie.v.parker [at] gmail.com> 
> wrote:
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> 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?

We don’t have  one although from time to time, residents have rented rooms. 
(This is rare.) The problem is the same as the one with rentals. To rent, 
someone has to build. That person would have to have enough money to build 
their own house, plus another house. Few people have that. 

A whole community could choose to do this and use the income to pay the 
mortgage. Someone reported here that a record of strong condo fee payments has 
been used to secure a mortgage. In this case it would also require a 
construction loan or a remodeling loan too.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org