Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Rental Cohousing?

[Raines Cohen (rc3-coho-L]

On Jan 12, 2008 10:04 PM, carrol crawford <ananda.silver [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds great, can you send it to LA?   Does anybody know anything going on
> in the Los Angeles Area?

Actually, Los Angeles EcoVillage, which uses many elements of the
cohousing model, although in the process of becoming a limited-equity
cooperative, was still rental-based, last I checked.

http://www.laecovillage.org/

Where, in fact, tomorrow, they are hosting a talk on Community Land
Trusts and Affordable Housing:

http://www.laecovillage.org/UseUpcoming%20events.html
http://www.livableplaces.org/

Also, there's a cohousing-related presentation coming up in Ventura
County at the end of the month, featuring a talk by the City Manager
at the UU church about collaborative housing, organized by Cohousing
magazine editor Donna Freiermuth:
http://coho.tribe.net/thread/7cc110fe-5120-41fe-8675-08b9716c8c26#c27cd2f3-07cc-48fc-9ed0-f90bb9d0fb42

or, if you can't click on the above link to the event in the Cohousing
tribe on tribe.net, try this one:
http://tinyurl.com/2j7o69

and a meeting today in Santa Monica:
http://www.samocoho.com/

Raines Cohen, Regional Organizer, Cohousing California
Currently hosting a San Diego cohousing organizer (and newly-minted
solar-installation trainer) who joined me in a biodiesel-powered trip
yesterday to the Silicon Valley Cohousing social where I re-met with a
developer who has some exciting Central California sites with
active-adult/Boomer/Senior/Elder Cohousing potential and is ready to
invest (with some risk-sharing) in making them real. The North Bay is
a hotbed of activity for both affordable and rental cohousing, and
several groups-in-formation. And way up North, Ukiah Valley Cohousing
just decided Friday night not to go forward with a retrofit
apartment-building site that was in escrow, and Trillium Creek,
Arcata's second community, is slated to start construction on a green
lot-model project this Spring, on a site that was considered for
cohousing 12 years ago by a previous group: http://trilliumcreek.org/

P.S. Apparently LA EcoVillage is under threat of Eminent Domain
demolition proceedings to create a new elementary school; there may be
lobbying we can do to help prevent that:

http://www.laecovillage.org/Newbites.html