Cohousing-L Mailing List: Making cohousing affordable

[Nancy E Wight (wight]

> Other groups may find it ironic--but one way of making cohousing affordab
> to acquire the land cheaply from a sympathetic person. 

I think this is one of the only ways to be able to make any kind of housing 
"affordable".  After all, we are not going to get builders to give us a 
break, on a large scale, and the people I've talked to who have been able 
to develop communities cheaper than the rest of us have all had some sort 
of subsidy or break on the land cost.  There is a group in Aspen, CO who 
got a land grant from the town of Aspen, where land values are higher than 
just about *anywhere*!  We, on the other hand, had to pay an exhorbitant 
amount of money for land, after looking for two years, which is one of the 
main reasons our community is so expensive.

- Nancy

Nancy Wight                                   wight [at] world.std.com
New View Neighborhood Development