Re: The popularization of the term Co-housing | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Sharon Villines (sharonsharonvillines.com) | |
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 15:21:26 -0700 (PDT) |
> On Oct 24, 2016, at 4:21 PM, Elizabeth Magill <pastorlizm [at] gmail.com> > wrote: > > I think an HOA is the board for a condo. A Home Owner’s Association is just that — an association of owners who have made specific legally binding agreements — usually shared costs for maintenance, a security force, a neighborhood pool, a community building of some kind, etc. But their ownership can be the same as owning a single family home. Or it could be a condo in which every owner owns the (1) a percentage of the value of the commonly owned property, and (2) the portion of the condo that they own and have the right to sell, and (3) rights and obligations as members of the Home Owners Association. The rights of boards and owners, and the financial arrangements and vocabulary vary from state to state. In DC, the owners must have at least one meeting a year to approve the annual budget. They may or may not be incorporated. The Condo Act refers to them as Real Estate Schemes, and the Act is in a different part of the law than the Corporate stuff. > Certainly my cohousing community, organized as a condo, has an HOA. The condo is the real estate. The HOA is the people who own and govern the condo. A team of us just worked on Bylaws revisions and this is one thing we had to sort out. “The Condominium” has a specific meaning and referrs to the physical reality of the condominium. It is not the same as “Takoma Village Cohousing Homeowners Association.” Most of our references were to “Takoma Village” which is totally non-specific and easily confusing. > However a group of people is legally organized, I think it still can be > cohousing. Cohousing is the social style, the way people expect to relate socially. The social style prefers and is aided by particular physical features— new specially designed construction — but it doesn’t require them. > I think that an ecovillage is a description of a way of having an > environmental impact. Surely there is nothing preventing an ecovillage from > also being cohousing. Most ecovillages, I think, do function like cohousing. The legal structure could be any of the above or others. They just have other requirements and activities related to ecological living. Some a lot and some just an intention. Some have a business entity related to the “eco.” Sharon ---- Sharon Villines Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC http://www.takomavillage.org
- Re: The popularization of the term Co-housing, (continued)
- Re: The popularization of the term Co-housing R Philip Dowds, October 24 2016
- Re: The popularization of the term Co-housing Elizabeth Magill, October 24 2016
- Re: The popularization of the term Co-housing R Philip Dowds, October 26 2016
- Re: The popularization of the term Co-housing Kathryn McCamant, October 26 2016
- Re: The popularization of the term Co-housing Sharon Villines, October 26 2016
- Re: The popularization of the term Co-housing Tiffany Lee Brown, October 28 2016
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