Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Rental cohousing?

[Roger Studley (roger]

Hi Karen!

There is an all-rental cohousing community in Oakland, CA called Golden
Gate Cohousing. They're run as a non-profit. I'm not sure if they're still
operating, though; the most recent post I see on their Facebook page
<https://www.facebook.com/goldengatecohousing/> is from March 2022. My
contact at GGC, Sean Culman, is no longer there, but he told me recently
that the person to reach out to would be Jack Sawyer, 510-332-5694.

Let me know if you learn anything. I'd love to know if they're still
operating and how things are going.

Warmly,
~Roger (510-604-2607)



On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 4:39 PM R Philip Dowds via Cohousing-L <
cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

> Whoa, what a question.  I guess it depends on how you want to define
> “cohousing”.
>
> One can certainly imagine a residential property where most or all tenants
> have signed up for the communitarian values of sharing, participation,
> empathy, reciprocity and equivalence — the values at the core of the
> cohousing enterprise.  (Imagine, Yes; instantiate, maybe not so easy.)
>
> But if one also imagines that cohousing includes self-determination and
> self-management of the commons, it’s not immediately clear how to sync this
> with tenancy.  Who decides how and when to renovate the common house?  Who
> decides to add or retire amenities like photovoltaics or an irrigation
> system?  Who screens for new tenants, how?  It’s hard to imagine a landlord
> delegating such powers and duties to the tenants.  What about the view,
> held by some, that legitimate cohousing properties must be self-developed
> by the future occupants, the "burning soul” founders who have the time and
> money to learn how to be developers?
>
> Single family, condo, coop, ecovillage, cohousing, ownership, rental,
> limited equity, etc: There are many, many ways to configure the residential
> lifeway.  Trying to agree on which can be labeled “cohousing” may be a
> fruitless task.
>
> Thanks,
> RPD
>
> > On Jul 11, 2024, at 5:40 PM, Karen Gimnig Nemiah <gimnig [at] gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > My memory is that in the past I have run across examples of all-rental
> > cohousing communities somewhere in Europe.  Specifically I think I
> remember
> > a community that was half owner-occupied and half rentals and maybe the
> > landlord was a government agency related to affordable housing?
> >
> > Does anyone know of the example I'm half-remembering and could point me
> to
> > it?  Or any other single-landlord rental model.  To be clear, I'm not
> > looking for examples where a handful of homeowners rent their homes - I
> > know of lots of those.
> >
> > Thanks for your help!
> >
> > In Community,
> > Karen Gimnig Nemiah
> > 678-705-9007
> > www.karengimnig.net
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