Cohousing-L Mailing List: Affordable Unit Lotteries

[Diane Simpson (coho]

Hi everyone in coho-land!

The City of Boston requires any developments of 10 or more houses
to have 10% affordable units.  The way the city likes to deal with
the affordable units is by having a lottery for them drawn from
a city-wide pool of applicants. Are there any other cohousing
groups who had to go through a similar process and did the
results work or not work for you?

--Diane Simpson(:^]
    Jamaica Plain Cohousing, Boston Massachusetts

>* #6 - Affordable Housing concept: there seem to be  multiple
>ways of addressing this item (the Boston way with the allocated
>units and the lottery and the Cohousing way with the internal
>supportive policies  minus the lottery).  From my memories of
>the Thursday night discussion, it seems  that there are some
>varying opinions on this lottery issue. Is it  possible for the
>lottery to work within the project model? Have any of the
>nation's previous cohousing projects had to meet similar
>affordability  requirements and they were able to execute
>it successfully?

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