Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Affordable Cohousing?

[Karen Sharman (wrasse]

Quick message from Australia. I am an architect with an interest in both
Cohousing and affordable housing.

In the state of NSW, affordable housing seems to be the keyword at the
present time. Whilst Cohousing is not up and running to the extent that it
is in the States, the co-operative model is a growing option.

I think it will end up working the opposite way here in Australia, whereby,
the
co-operative model (currently rental-based in the public housing sector)
will gain popularity as it is incorporated into an affordable housing
strategy. This is what I am trying to encourage
with the hope that the benefits of cohousing are realised by the wider
community and adopted within the private sector.

Good luck with Windsor Cohousing. I think it's a wonderful idea!

Karen Sharman


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> From: cohousing-l [at] freedom.mtn.org
> Subject: COHOUSING-L digest 652
> Date: Wednesday, 28 October 1998 15:49
> 
>                           COHOUSING-L Digest 652
> 
> Topics covered in this issue include:
> 
>   1) Composting toilets, anyone?
>       by Dan Everett <drdan [at] arches.uga.edu>
>   2) Affordable Cohousing?
>       by "David C. Ergo" <dcergo [at] sonic.net>
>   3) Group rate for Lodging at ECCC
>       by ann zabaldo <annz [at] libertyvillage.com>
>   4) CoHo Journal articles
>       by Robin Allison <ecohousing [at] xtra.co.nz>
>   5) Re: CoHo Journal articles
>       by Cheryl Charis-Graves <ccharis [at] jeffco.k12.co.us>
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 15:39:43 -0500
> From: Dan Everett <drdan [at] arches.uga.edu>
> To: cohousing-l [at] freedom.mtn.org
> Subject: Composting toilets, anyone?
> Message-ID: <36362F8F.FC3BF66B [at] arches.uga.edu>
> 
> Dear Friends,
> 
>     Does anyone have experience with composting toilets? I am interested
in the
> reliability of esp. Sun-Mar and Clivus Multrum units.
> 
> Thanks a bunch,
> Dan Everett
> Kenney Ridge Community
> Athens, GA USA
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 17:13:03 -0800
> From: "David C. Ergo" <dcergo [at] sonic.net>
> To: cohousing-l [at] freedom.mtn.org
> Subject: Affordable Cohousing?
> Message-ID: <l03130303b25bbb8f4ee1@[208.201.230.169]>
> 
> One of the barriers that a lot of people have had to cohousing is cost.
Too
> many interested folks simply can't afford the thousands of dollars it
takes
> to buy into a community.
> 
> We want to offer an alternative. Windsor Cohousing in Sonoma County,
> California, is working to build a market rate cohousing project on a 1.5
> acre parcel alongside a local non-profit developer's affordable housing
> community (3.5 acres) in Windsor. The Cohousing Company has been hired to
> do the site design for both projects, and will create a plan that
> integrates the two communities together as much as is practical.
> 
> We would like to go even further than this, and have cohousing extend
into
> the affordable community, so that a number of units in the affordable
> community effectively function as a part of our cohousing community.
> However, there are a number of legal, socio-economic and social issues
that
> we need to identify and resolve before the non-profit developer could
> consider this. The idea, however, is still on the table.
> 
> To qualify for the affordable community, a household will have to earn
60%
> or less than the area median income (the level changes depending on the
> household's significant assets). This translates as follows:
> 
>                  Yearly Area       60% of Yearly
> Family           Median            Area Median
> Size             Income            Income
> 
> 1                $38,000           $22,800
> 2                $43,450           $26,070
> 3                $48,850           $29,310
> 4                $54,300           $32,580
> 5                $58,650           $35,190
> 6                $63,000           $37,800
> 
> We need to know if there is any interest out there in helping us create a
> combined market-rate and affordable cohousing community. Please e-mail or
> call if you are interested, or know of someone who is interested, in
either
> the market-rate or affordable component of our communities. And please
> forward this message to anyone else!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
> David C. Ergo
> (707) 539-0132
> dcergo [at] sonic.net
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 02:22:02 -0500
> From: ann zabaldo <annz [at] libertyvillage.com>
> To: Cohousing List <cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org>
> Subject: Group rate for Lodging at ECCC
> Message-ID: <3636C61A.1BFFAF80 [at] libertyvillage.com>
> 
> Hi all!  I said I would investigate getting group rates for the
> upcoming ECCC at some local hotels.  I've called two and have not
> received a return call.  I'll call again tomorrow and post the
> results as soon as I get them.
> 
> --
> _______________________
> Best -- Ann Zabaldo
> Liberty Village Cohousing (:~
> annz [at] libertyvillage.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:42:27 +1300
> From: Robin Allison <ecohousing [at] xtra.co.nz>
> To: cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org
> Subject: CoHo Journal articles
> Message-ID: <3636CAE3.3160 [at] xtra.co.nz>
> 
> I've been trying for some months to get hold of 2 articles from previous
> issues of the CoHousing Journal without success. Would anyone be willing
> to email/fax/post me copies of the article by Mary Kraus from Winter '95
> about hiring in-group professionals, and the article on Harmony Village
> from Fall/Winter '97. I'd be much obliged.
> 
> Also my emails to Matt Worsnick have bounced - does he have a new
> address?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Robin Allison
> Waitakere Eco-Neighbourhood Cohousing Project
> P.O. Box 44-137,
> Point Chevalier
> Auckland
> New Zealand
> Phone/Fax ++649-378-9230
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 07:16:21 -0600
> From: Cheryl Charis-Graves <ccharis [at] jeffco.k12.co.us>
> To: ecohousing [at] xtra.co.nz
> Subject: Re: CoHo Journal articles
> Message-ID: <36371922.F03CB7D8 [at] jeffco.k12.co.us>
> 
> Matt's address is:  <mworswick [at] aol.com>
> 
> Robin Allison wrote:
> 
> > I've been trying for some months to get hold of 2 articles from
previous
> > issues of the CoHousing Journal without success. Would anyone be
willing
> > to email/fax/post me copies of the article by Mary Kraus from Winter
'95
> > about hiring in-group professionals, and the article on Harmony Village
> > from Fall/Winter '97. I'd be much obliged.
> >
> > Also my emails to Matt Worsnick have bounced - does he have a new
> > address?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Robin Allison
> > Waitakere Eco-Neighbourhood Cohousing Project
> > P.O. Box 44-137,
> > Point Chevalier
> > Auckland
> > New Zealand
> > Phone/Fax ++649-378-9230
> 
> 
> 
> 
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