Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Unprogrammed suites

[Lynn Nadeau / Maraiah (welcome]

At RoseWind Cohousing, Port Townsend WA (long built), many of our  
homes are on a hillside, so daylight basement spaces are common. ADUs  
(accessory dwelling units, in city parlance) are legal in our town,  
and in our community. So a number of lower levels, and other such  
spaces, have been built as ADUs. Presently, I think there are 7. Some  
have family members, some have housed caregivers, some are rented to  
nearly-invisible tenants, others have tenants who are socially very  
much part of the community: my renter downstairs has been here 14  
years. One renter/housemate in particular did a whole lot to help  
build our common house and some of the homes. Another helps cook.

Having renter/housemates has helped our economic diversity and hasn't  
been any sort of problem.

Maraiah Lynn Nadeau
in a corner of the NW where I'll be able to go out in a sweater most  
of the winter, and the garden will keep giving us fresh food, and
where we have two resales available, around $325K, and potentially a  
house for a year's lease
check it out.... come visit?  the cultural and physical climate is great
rain? we have 17" a year, same as San Francisco (a well-kept secret)