Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Really inexpensive (ha!) cohousing??

[Kevin Wolf (kevin]

MEW
N Street Cohousing is in the lowest cost neighborhood in town. 
Average houses are 1100 square feet and are poorly made.  Prices have 
gone up here as they have just about everywhere in CA but still are 
the lowest priced in town. I believe On Going Concerns, another 
retrofit community in OR is also in a low income section of town. 
Retrofit cohousing in low income neighborhoods is an alternative.
Kevin


> So, after our wonderful most recent group amicably decided
> affordable land was just too hard to come by (alas) - my husband
> and I started joking about "Double Wide Cohousing - the affordable
> alternative!" and then I got thinking - is there any precedence for
> sacrificing aesthetics somewhat but using really inexpensive
> building techniques?  Mobile home cohousing?  I don't know... I'm
> not really sure if pre-fab houses are cheaper (though my sense
> from the little research I've done is that they can be really cheap in
> the "fall apart" sense, modestly priced and decent, or actually of
> pretty high quality and nice but expensive).
>
> Just curious! :-)
>
> Mary Ellen (aka "mew" - who is going to live in cohousing someday
> darnit!) ;-)
> MaryEllen Wessels / Hopeful Romantics
> mew AT  mewsic DOT com
> http://www.mewsic.com
> (802) 985-3165
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at:
> http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/