Re: affordable housing
From: 'Judith Wisdom (wisdompobox.upenn.edu)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 07:11:40 -0500
I am about to look into another possiblility to extend cohousing to 
people who can't afford it without assessing cohousing members.  While 
the idea seems a good one and should definitely be investigated I worry 
about the social consequences.  Specifically, wouldn't the person or 
persons who are the recipients of this good will, especially in so small 
a community, feel like charity cases, fell unequal, or be felt about that 
way?

However, I wonder, if the monies were to come from outside, with no 
strings on the autonomy of the community, might that work better?  I 
don't know?  I was thinking that some groups like the Quakers and the 
Unitarians and other church groups might be interested.  Some already 
have an interest in housing.  Mostly they think of housing as units they 
set up, but if they could be convinced to start experimenting with 
helping people enter non-special interest housing (like housing 
exclusively for the elderly or disabled or single woman with children) 
because these are ghettos they could be convinced.

I am going to be checking into this.  I know one Unitarian group that has 
a place for the elderly and is thinking of setting up one for woman with 
children where no spouse/so is around.

This would be more like a voucher system.  The individual family or 
person would have to find their own coho, gain entree, etc.  

Judith
wisdom [at] pobox.upenn.edu

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