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Hello Jennifer,

	Jamaica Plain Cohousing has three units that are affordable in the 

formal-program sense as well as an affordability fund that has assisted 

five other households to buy market-rate units.  Jamaica Plain itself is a 

neighborhood of Boston and definitely is urban.

	JP Cohousing, Cornerstone Village, and Cambridge Cohousing 

comprise the urban-area Boston cohousing communities.  As you can see, a 

majority of households in our communities have bought market-rate 

households with no assistance, but a significant minority either have a 

formal-affordable unit or have had community assistance in buying a 

market-rate unit (probably some of the unassisted households have obtained 

informal assistance from family or friends).

Regards,
David Heimann
JP Cohousing

Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 19:40:50 -0500
From: Diane <dianeclaire [at] gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Urban Affordable Cooperative Cohousing
        Developments
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Cambridge Cohousing has two affordable units owned by the Cambridge Housing
Authority and one first time homebuyers unit.   Does that fit your needs?

Diane

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Mabel Liang <mabel [at] twomeeps.com> wrote:

Jennifer,

I don't know how urban you think Amherst is.  When we were first looking
into cohousing we visited Pomeroy Lane Cooperative, a 25 unit limited
equity, mixed income cooperative in Amherst with 4 units set aside for
persons with cognitive disabilities.  It's not cohousing, but it has some
common facilities.  You can find them via Google.

The cohousing developments in Cambridge (Cornerstone Village and Cambridge
Cohousing) and Boston (Jamaica Plain Cohousing) have affordable units, but
they are not cooperatives.

-- Mabel :-)

Mabel Liang
mabel [at] twomeeps.com
Software Engineer turned Gardener
Cornerstone Village Cohousing
Cambridge, MA

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Subject: [C-L]_ Urban Affordable Cooperative Cohousing Developments
From:    "Jennifer" <jms1970us [at] yahoo.com>
Date:    Thu, February 5, 2009 7:08 pm
To:      Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org
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Hello,

I???m a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts, and I???m
completing my degree in regional planning.  My master???s thesis research
is on urban affordable cooperative cohousing developments.  I am looking
for information about urban affordable cohousing and

cooperative/cohousing

hybrid developments possibly in the New England or New York metro areas.

Right now, I know of Sawyer Hill Cohousing in Berlin, MA, which has
affordable units in their development, but it isn't in an urban

community,

and I know about Greenway Park Cohousing in Chicago, which has affordable
units in an urban area, but isn???t in the New England or New York metro

> area.  Any information about cohousing developments that fit at least
two

of the above requirements would be helpful.

Thanks so much for your help,

Jennifer Siciliano

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