Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: unit selection priority?

[Peg Blum (pegb]

> >> Could I get some feedback from communities on factors you used in unit
> >> selection precedence: > >
>>>
> Recognition for being there and working when no one else was should not be
> set aside or forgotten as soon as some stage of accomplishment (like
having
> units to chose from) is reached.

To add a bit to Rowena's description of how unit selection priority was set
here in Cambridge Cohousing:   Of our 41 households, about 20 were original
members of our Limited Liability Partnership.  Most of those folks had been
involved from the initial meetings of core group (we had about 28 people at
our first meeting).  The LLP was formed about a year and some months after
that first meeting.  Those original 20 households were the ones who drew
their selection number "out of the hat."  That was the only fair way to do
it, since all had, by then, done a lot of work.  After that, we used
seniority, i.e. assigning numbers in order as people joined the LLP by
paying their fair share.

That combination of methods worked well for us.

Peg Blum