Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Rental cohousing?

[Josh Yeats (josh.yeats]

Check out '26Aroha' in Auckland, it's a recent (4-5yo) build-to-rent
development of 13 apartments that was inspired by Cohousing. It's a
for-profit enterprise though so it's not cohousing.
I rented there for a year before our own cohousing project finished
construction. It was a tremendous place to live.

https://26aroha.nz/
https://www.instagram.com/26aroha_apartments


On Fri, 12 Jul 2024 at 12:21, Roger Studley <roger [at] urbanmoshav.org> wrote:

> 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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