Re: Re: the microflat as a module in affordable inner urban design | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Sharon Villines (sharonsharonvillines.com) | |
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 11:21:01 -0600 (MDT) |
on 7/14/2002 12:30 PM, Jock Coats at jock.coats [at] oxfordlibdems.org.uk wrote: > they are still perpetuating a myth that ownership is the only > really desirable form of tenure and pandering to that. It would be my > contention that if the same principles were applied to building > not-for-profit housing for community ownership renting would not be > 'dead money' Renting in a situation where your rents do not threaten to throw you out of your home is a tremendously freeing state. But when I lived in Manhattan, the rent increases are so great that I lived in fear that I would lose my home with the next lease, and then lose my neighborhood and then lose my town. But when I was renting in Florida, it was lovely. I had no worries about repairs inside or outside my apartment and all the outside maintenance was taken care of much better than I would have been able to keep up with it. (In Florida anything green grows an inch every hour.) Now I own my unit and even though I have no ideas of ever paying off my mortgage, I have stable monthly payments that are still about $400 lower than if I were renting. And I have the privilege of changing appliances, etc., without getting permission or losing them when I can no longer afford the rent. Perhaps the issue is the competitive market. If I could be assured that I would not lose my apartment and my rents would not go up, I would rent. But in Manhattan with rent controls, this has not worked for anyone. Not the city owned buildings or the privately owned buildings. Or in some sense for the renters who are trapped in the system. They can never leave their apartments. Sharon -- In Washington DC where all roads lead to Casablanca _______________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: http://www.communityforum.net/mailman/listinfo/cohousing-l
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Re: the microflat as a module in affordable inner urban design Hans Tilstra, July 14 2002
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Re: Re: the microflat as a module in affordable inner urban design Jock Coats, July 14 2002
- Re: Re: the microflat as a module in affordable inner urban design Jock Coats, July 14 2002
- Re: Re: the microflat as a module in affordable inner urban design Sharon Villines, July 14 2002
- Re: Re: the microflat as a module in affordable inner urban design Jock Coats, July 14 2002
- Re: Re: the microflat as a module in affordable inner urban design Sharon Villines, July 14 2002
- Re: Re: the microflat as a module in affordable inner urban design Jock Coats, July 14 2002
- Re: Re: the microflat as a module in affordable inner urban design Sharon Villines, July 15 2002
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Re: Re: the microflat as a module in affordable inner urban design Jock Coats, July 14 2002
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