Cohousing-L Mailing List: How hard is partnering with housing authorities? -- Shelly DeMeo

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Shelly DeMeo, Greater Hartford Cohousing <shelldemeo [at] attbi.com>
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Hi--

Greater Hartford Cohousing is considering a site in our top pick town,
West Hartford.  The site is 8 acres in a semi-urban location.

The site would only work for us (due to price) if we had part of the site.  
The way the site would work is that a piece of it would be cohousing,
around 3.5 acres (tight!), the town would have a soccer field, there would
be a garden, and the Hartford Housing Authority wants to do 20 units of 55
plus senior housing.

The guy who is building momentum for this project is the director of a
west hartford housing initiative that wants to do a cohousing community
with us but have about eight of them below market rate.

He has met with town officials, head of hartford housing authority, a
prominent architect in our town (Tai Soo Kim) who is enthusiastic about
the concept and is drawing up some preliminary site plans.  While he knows
what cohousing is, he has no cohousing experience.  His last job was a
korean embassy.

We are having a meeting with everyone, including our project manager Peter
Jessop.

Sorry long-winded but,if you have any advice about working with other
groups including a housing authority (good or bad) and/or if you have a
site plan of cohousing on tight space within a larger design concept that
we could take a look at, let me know.

This is complicated and we could use any help anyone wants to give us.

Thanks,
Shelly DeMeo
Greater Hartford Cohousing

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