Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Affordable Unit Lotteries

[Laura Fitch, A.I.A. (lfitch]

Didn't Cornerstones just go through that?  Laura

Diane Simpson wrote:

> 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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