Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Affordability -- House and lot costs

[Jeffrey O. Hobson (dcn00109]

Tom Patton wrote:
>(or, if possible, 
>move old houses onto the property...I know this can be a *very* cheap means of
>aquiring a house if you have the land for it...I've got a friend who got 2
>houses this way for free.  All he had to do was pay to have them moved, about
>$3000 each - they were small houses and were going to be torn down if
>nobody wnated them.  This may warrant a thread of its own, though) 

This is exactly what Solar Community Housing Association is trying to do to
create low-income cohousing in Davis.  They currently own two co-op houses
in town, including one in Village Homes (a community-minded solar
development built in the 70s).  Over the past few years, they have collected
two or three houses which were going to be bulldozed, and moved them onto a
lot adjacent to a new development in town.  They're planning on low-income
cohousing, but I don't really know how far along they are.

peace,
Jeffrey Hobson                                    N Street Cohousing 
dcn00109 [at] wheel.ucdavis.edu         Davis Energy Group