Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Responding to inaccuracies about cohousing

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

Janet Kelly <janetkelly28 [at] gmail.com>
is the author of the message below.  It was posted by
Fred, the Cohousing-L list manager <fholson [at] cohousing.org>
after deleting most of the quote of Diana's original message
and adding "http://"; to the URL in her signature to make it
universally clickable.

Everyone: Please avoid excessive quoting, It makes digests difficult to
read, wastes bandwidth and is generally a nuisance.

In particular, please do not quote all of Diana's long message.

Also use "http://"; in email.
Details see FAQ's: http://l.cohousing.org/c-l-faq.htm

Thanks, Fred

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On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Diana Leafe Christian <diana [at] 
ic.org>wrote:

>     Today people on the Fellowship for Intentional Community's email
> list got a message from a man named David who had some, in my
> opinion, very inaccurate ideas about cohousing.

Thank you for your detailed and measured response, Diana.

Here at Arboretum Cohousing we have 6 affordable units, including two units
built by Habitat for Humanity.  All of them were snapped up, and we had
multiple applicants for many units.  We have been one of the few
"developers" in Madison to actively market and sell our affordable units --
most for-profit developers tried hard to avoid Madison's "inclusionary
zoning" requirements.

Our units in general did not end up to be as affordable as we had initially
hoped, given the high costs of urban in-fill construction.  We had no profit
included in the purchase price of the units, just the costs of
construction.  I suspect this is the same for most cohousing communities.

Janet Kelly
Arboretum Cohousing
Madison Wisconsin
janetkelly28 [at] gmail.com
http://arboretumcohousing.org





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Janet Kelly
255-7277(w); 280-9617(h); 333-8338(cell)