Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Rental Cohousing

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

Hi Crystal,

Crystal Farmer wrote:

>I live in a low income neighborhood and notice a lot of the homes are
>owned by real estate investors. I wonder if a kind of cohousing could
>be formed by having the residents and owners make agreements about
>community living? There is a brand new set of condos sitting empty
>because they are on our side of town, the "bad neighborhood."
>
>Does anyone have experience with real estate investors and converting
>rental housing into cohousing?
>
>Crystal Farmer

There is a related model for developing cohousing in existing housing
over time.  It's called Neighborhood Cohousing tho the older more
established term is "Retrofit cohousing"  (a term that is confusing
but it's still the established term - it is essentially
"converted-over-time"). See for example:

Kevin Wolf's 8 Nov 2014 post
Re: Defining retrofit cohousing...
http://lists.cohousing.org/pipermail/cohousing-l/msg37917.html

8 Dec 2013
"Neighborhood" Cohousing or "Retrofit" Cohousing
http://lists.cohousing.org/pipermail/cohousing-l/msg36631.html

I have a little page: http://mn.cohousing.org/retrofit/

Searching the cohousing-L archives for "retrofit" yields lots of hits.

The premier retrofit cohousing example, N Street Cohousing in Davis,
California where Kevin lives and is a prime mover has a variety of
ownership arrangments including rental.

Fred who is part of Bassett Creek Cohousing which is working to develop
     (new built) cohousing in a low income, racially mixed neighborhood.
     Yesterday 118 bicyclists on a Sierra Club urban ride stopped at our
     site and listened to to a short presentation.

--
Bassett Creek Cohousing, Minneapolis  http://mn.cohousing.org/bcrk/
Fred H. Olson  Minneapolis,MN 55411  USA        (near north Mpls)
     Email:        fholson at cohousing.org      612-588-9532
My Link Pg: http://fholson.cohousing.org