Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Rental Cohousing

[Fred-List manager (fholson]

Jean Hopkins <seaheidi [at] earthlink.net>
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If your city has a 'housing or land trust', it might be able to help you
build some common space for bringing neighbors together to help each other
and have more positive interactions.
Jean Hopkins, living in Burlington VT cohousing

Crystal Farmer wrote:

>I live in a low income neighborhood and notice a lot of the homes are
>owned by real estate investors. I wonder if a kind of cohousing could
>be formed by having the residents and owners make agreements about
>community living? There is a brand new set of condos sitting empty
>because they are on our side of town, the "bad neighborhood."
>
>Does anyone have experience with real estate investors and converting
>rental housing into cohousing?
>
>Crystal Farmer