Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Affordable Unit Lotteries

[Kay Argyle (argyle]

The important thing, I think, is whether the affordable housing agency will
waive any requirement that lottery winners (or people at the top of a
waiting list) accept whatever unit they are offered or lose their chance.
You don't want a resident who regards cohousing as the unfortunate thing
about an otherwise nice place.  In our case, we pursuaded the agency to
allow potential residents to turn down our units (after an interview and
maybe a couple of meetings) without being dropped to the bottom of the list.

Of residents in our affordable units, some came to us through the agency
program, and some found us other ways and then applied to the agency.

Kay
Wasatch Commons
Salt Lake City, Utah
argyle [at] mines.utah.edu
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