Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Affordable Unit Lotteries

[mabel (mabel]

Yes, we did.  I'm out of town right now, so can't go into a lot of detail.
Diane, you know where to find us.

Basically we worked out a deal with the city of Cambridge (MA).  People
went through most of the city's process first.  Then they had to go
through our normal membership process of an orientation plus becoming an
associate member and attending 5 Cornerstone events, including joining a
committee.  Plus they had to attend a workshop on the consensus process.
Then we did our normal full member consensus process (with a fair amount
of pressure to only not consense people if they didn't seem to understand
or be able to work withi the consensus process, not for any other reason.)
Some people had withdrawn or not gone thru the requirements by that time.
Finally, there was a lottery among all the approved people (which was
everyone who had chosen to go forward).

Need to go now.  Should be back by Wednesday.

                                                -- Mabel :-)

On Sun, 26 May 2002, Laura
Fitch, A.I.A. wrote:

> 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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