Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: City and municipal zoning and laws.

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On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 2:11 PM Tom Smyth <tom [at] tomsmyth.ca> wrote:

> Hear hear. Great points Brian. I look forward to this workshop and would
> love to see this covered as well. And how about retro-fit cohousing? Do
> local laws come into play there? I know little about it but it seems
> crucial to scaling the movement...
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 3:59 PM Brian Bartholomew via Cohousing-L <
> cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
>
> > Dean,
> >
> > Please consider taking a wider view, and survey laws which affect
> > approaches other than the usual dense suburban look for $400K/unit.
> >
> > For instance, will the local development-plan-approver allow less
> > expensive developments which depress existing housing resale prices by
> > creating competing alternatives?
> >
> > There are many approaches to construction which can build
> > incrementally over 10-20 years with less loans:
> >
> >         State park-ish style with centralized bathroom, laundry,
> >         kitchen.  Bare lots with electricity and telco but not fresh
> >         water or sewer yet.
> >
> >         Trailer park style with yucky old trailers; with RVs; with
> >         brand new LEED Katrina cottages.
> >
> >         Suburban neighborhood style with water and sewer buried under
> >         road, but cheaper roads: dirt or limerock instead of pavement,
> >         no storm drains, sidewalks, streetlights, curbs.
> >
> > These housing styles may not be your preference.  However, some people
> > need a cheaper approach, as cost of living is being inflated from 7%
> > to 13%.  These numbers are calculated from price tags of common items:
> >
> >         http://www.chapwoodindex.com/
> >
> > > At the state or federal level, why not seek to have government loan
> > > guarantees for cohousing?
> >
> > As we've seen with university tuition, if you make a broad government
> > guarantee of loans then institutions will raise prices to consume
> > those guarantee amounts.  The cost to the consumer will grow much
> > faster than even the rest of the cost of living is being grown.  To
> > really make it unaffordable, make the debts non-dischargable in
> > bankruptcy like student loans are.  Then there's even less risk to the
> > lenders, and the loans which are poorly justified by future earnings
> > potential will be even bigger.
> >
> > Obviously, a government program which taxes money from an upper-middle
> > class person and gives it back to them as a housing subsidy has
> > produced no wealth.  Instead, it has consumed wealth to administrate
> > that program.  A mechanism like Kickstarter is far more democratic, as
> > the opinions about what results would be a net wealth increase are
> > being made by every person who pays in, not just legislators.
> >
> > Brian
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