Cohousing-L Mailing List: Rental cohousing?

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Kathryn McCamant <kmccamant [at] cohousing-solutions.com>
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I designed several communities with a non-profit housing developer in
Nor Cal that used the LITC (most common affordable housing funding
source) that were designed as a cohousing (nice common houses) but did
not have resident involvement. I would not call them cohousing myself,
but rather cohousing inspired. They work very well as affordable
housing, but not as I would expect a owner developed cohousing
community.  Affordable housing (mostly rentals these days)developments
tend to have some of the strongest community oriented designs out
there, but they don’t function as you would expect a
“conventional” cohousing community. Give me a call if you want to
hear more.

I know of one community in the states (Elderspirit) and one in Denmark
that are half ownership and half affordable rentals. On the
development side, you are essentially developing two different
projects side by side…. Very complicated which is why you don’t
see more of these.

I have never seen a privately-owned rental developed as cohousing
community, although there is a whole world of co-living where that is
done now.

Katie
Kathryn McCamant , President
CoHousing Solutions
www.cohousing-solutions.com<http://www.cohousing-solutions.com>
916.798.4755

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Date: Thursday, July 11, 2024 at 2:41 PM
To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Subject: [C-L]_ Rental cohousing?
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<http://www.karengimnig.net>
Scheduling Calendar <https://calendar.app.google/xyZbYtyvgq4vfVpT9>
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