Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Diversity in Cohousing

[Jock Coats (jock.coats]

Kay Argyle wrote:

> > I'm interested in just what level of income causes someone to be
> > considered poor.  > Ruth Gardner
> >    
Over here 'poor people' don't get affordable housing.  They get social 
housing.  It's people like me who are reasonably comfortable on above 
average (just) salary but for whom that leaves you woefully short of 
being able to participate in home ownership, who would get affordable 
housing.  That includes huges swathes of professional and 
semi-professional (public sector mainly) workers.  Teachers, nurses, 
newly qualified doctors, HE staff and all sorts of others earning a 
decent income but priced out of property.

My project in Oxford will I hope catch both groups.  Indeed its main 
target is 'people like me' I guess - so the ones who require not for 
profit housing and want a say in how it's provided.

Jock

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