Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Re: affordable unit lotteries

[mabel (mabel]

I'm still on the road and trying to get out the door.  But no, Cornerstone
isn't a co-op.  But we were all built at once, not the lot development
model.  We are currently a condominium.  People first joined the
corporation which was building the development, and later bought there
units from the corporation.

Screening is allowed, as long as you don't use particular protected
criteria for screening.  Understanding consensus is certainly not a
protected criteria.  I can talk about this more later in the week, if
people are interested.

I remember when I lived in NYC, and there was a case where a lndlord
refused to rent to a lwayer, saying she would know her rights and thus be
a difficult tenant.  The court upheld this refusal, saying that lawyers
were a protected class.

                                        -- Mabel :-)

On Mon, 27 May 2002, Lynn Nadeau wrote:

> >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
>
> [Aside: I guess Cornerstone must be a co-op, or otherwise have a legal
> structure that allows new members to be screened. In most open-market
> real estate situations, screening would be against anti-discrimination
> rules, I'd assume.]
>

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