Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: strategies to rein in escalating purchase prices

[Hafidha Sofia (hafidhaao]

Sharon, I don’t know what you intended, but your post 
-discourages people from utilizing minority owned contractor companies
-perpetuates the idea that their work is of inferior quality
-peddles the story that affirmative action policies reward un-deserving 
minorities 

Again, I don’t know what you intended but these are all very racist things. I 
am on this list to learn and be informed but reading your post this morning 
felt like a real slap in the face. I hope you can refrain from giving racist 
advice on this list. 

Sincerely,
Hafidha

Songaia Cohousing
Washington State, USA

> On May 28, 2021, at 8:43 AM, Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L <cohousing-l 
> [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
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>>> On May 27, 2021, at 8:57 AM, Olaf Kula <kulaolaf1957 [at] gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The
>> other is whether there are grants, lending concessions, or tax incentives,
>> to offset the higher building costs.
> 
> Careful of tax incentives. Our developer had tax incentives for using 
> minority companies as subcontractors. The problem was that they were brand 
> new and didn’t exist before the legislation existed. The result was a lot of 
> work that had to be redone, some not discovered until years later.
> 
> A flooring company said a few years ago that the bid winner for doing floors 
> for Air Force 1 was a company led by a native Alaskan. No one in the flooring 
> business had ever heard of such a company or person.
> 
> Sharon
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