Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: The popularization of the term Co-housing

[Kathryn McCamant (kmccamant]

We’ve done a lot of cohousing communities in CA where the number of Board 
Members equals the # of units in the community. We still use coordinating or 
steering teams, as well as the usual mix of other teams or committees, but by 
giving all owner households a board membership, the buck really does stop with 
the community as a whole. 

Katie 
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Kathryn McCamant, President
CoHousing Solutions

241B Commercial Street 

Nevada City, CA 95959

T.530.478.1970  C.916.798.4755

www.cohousing-solutions.com
 




On 10/26/16, 5:22 AM, "Cohousing-L on behalf of R Philip Dowds" 
<cohousing-l-bounces+kmccamant=cohousing-solutions.com [at] cohousing.org on 
behalf of rpdowds [at] comcast.net> wrote:

I don’t want to be the Captain of the Vocabulary Police, but I tend to use the 
terms differently.  Condominium associations and home owner associations are 
each legal entities (corporations, if you like) that own and manage common 
property.  Condos associations tend to own a lot in common (with private 
ownership limited to what’s within the drywall boundaries of the unit), and 
home owner associations tend to own much less.  But all such corporations have 
an elected Board of Directors; in MA, it’s called Managing Board, and in other 
States, something else.  Cohousing communities are ever wary of hierarchical 
structures controlled by elites, so they often invent work-arounds that 
transfer duty and power from the legally-required Board to other groups.  But 
in the eyes of the State that charters them, cohousing communities are still 
corporations, and the buck stops at the Board.

Thanks,
Philip Dowds
Cornerstone Village Cohousing
Cambridge, MA

> On Oct 24, 2016, at 4:21 PM, Elizabeth Magill <pastorlizm [at] gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> This conversation is quite confusing!!!
> 
> I think an HOA is the board for a condo. Certainly my cohousing community, 
> organized as a condo, has an HOA.
> However a group of people is legally organized, I think it still can be 
> cohousing.

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