Cohousing-L Mailing List: Sweat Equity and affordable housing

[Jessica E. Morey 02 (Jessica.E.Morey.02]

I just read an article in the Anchorage Daily News about a USDA Rural Housing 
Service Program called SELF HELP HOUSING, which requires the home owners to 
work 30 hours a week on the houses, pouring concrete, hammering nails... 
everything cohousers seem to want to do.
The home owners qualify by being low income and having low debt.  There is one 
developed community like this in Palmer Alaska and another just breaking ground 
in Settler's Bay.
Sounded very much like cohousing- an added benefit described was knowing your 
neighbors by the end of the project.
All those folks wondering about affordability should check this out.
Jessica
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