Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: rental models of co housing?

[Philip Dowds (rphilipdowds]

I very much want to avoid turning tenants into second class citizens.  But at 
first glance, it’s hard to reconcile the cohousing principles of 
self-management, equivalence, participation, and accountability (? 
Accountability? Is that one of our principles?) with the powers and authority 
of an absentee landlord.

But, Does the landlord have to be absentee?  In the coop model, one buys and 
owns, not a dwelling premises bounded by drywall, but rather a stake in the 
entire enterprise — plus, of course, certain rights and duties of occupancy.  
The landlord is resident, and is everybody.  Maybe this is as close to rentals 
as cohousing will get.

Thanks,
Philip Dowds
Cornerstone Village Cohousing
Cambridge, MA

mobile: 617.460.4549
email:   rpdowds [at] comcast.net

> On Mar 31, 2019, at 11:39 AM, Melanie G <gomelaniego [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Do any exist?  Or would that be out of sink with the logic?  Or maybe even
> rent to own?  Just wondering after reading some of the abundant comments
> about zoning, whether something like a rent to own situation might be
> viable within a co housing framework.
> 
> thank you all for the richness of conversations here,
> melanie (looking for community)
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