Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Sweat Equity

[Deborah Behrens (debbeh]

Highline Crossing is beginning to wrestle seriously with the issues around
sweat equity.  How have your groups handled this?

a       Requiring X hours of SE by housing unit or by individual adults

b       Some form of remuneration for SE work

c       Alternatives for those who can't (or won't) perform SE

d       What sorts of work are appropriately performed as SE

e       How your solution has been influenced by specific talents in your group

f       What about all the years of work put in in the early days of your group
        being treated differently from the later physical labor, and committee 
        work in general

g       Pitfalls of using SE instead of expensive but skilled sub contractors

h       any other SE issues I haven't thought of????


Thanx, 
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