Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Alternatives for creating inexpensive homes...

[Kari Ann Owen (penomee]

Dear Elizabeth,
My husband and I are low income (senior/disabled) and very interested in co
housing. We agree that financing alternatives need to exist for all families.
Believe me, we hope one will work for our family! And we are very interested in
self sustaining environments.

I have found some and am enclosing the URL's for all persons interested in this
subject.

Very best,
Kari Ann and Silas Warner

http://www.barberyard.org/development_concepts.htm
http://www.mercyhousing.org/about/default.asp?action=where&location=california
http://www.hcd.ca.gov/clearinghouse/
http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/primary_cntct_table.htm
http://www.lihf.org/site/programs/housing.htm



Elizabeth Cobb wrote:

> Michelle,

>
> That said, I want to believe that alternatives exist...  What if a
> likeminded (but financially diverse) group of people decided to learn how to
> build, by working to build houses for Habitats for Humanity, and then
> managed to build their own houses?  What if mortgages didn't have to be a
> necessity, and a screener?  What if the houses didn't have to be like the
> oversized, conspicuously-consuming mansion-wannabes that are going up all
> over Northern Virginia on postage-stamp-sized plots of land, with three-car
> garages, and whirlpool baths, and everything that today's overachievers
> can't seem to live without?  What if we built them ourselves, using the
> latest green technology, side by side, building community even as we built
> our community?
>
> It sounds like a fairy tale, and furthermore from the mostly dead silence
> when I occasionally put out a feeler onto the listserv, a fairy tale that
> fails to resonate with many folks.  Still, I keep hoping, listening,
> learning, waiting...  I have another three more years to live in another
> country before deciding whether this fairy tale might have some basis in
> reality.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Liza
>

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