Re: making cohousing affordable | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Hafidha Sofia (hafidhaao![]() |
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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 07:34:36 -0800 (PST) |
Tl;dr: As I understand it, affordability is definitely a value of cohousing. The issue is that housing is incredibly and increasingly expensive these days (up 25% since 2019). Cohousing communities are created by people, for people. Not developers getting tax breaks, and not the gov't. So yes, we have a problem. It's now MUCH harder for ordinary people to create cohousing. Long read: Nobody is out there creating communities for us - WE do. We make them, govern them, and maintain them. Communities are created because a handful of people who know each other decide to think collectively, and embark on the long journey toward a shared future. Unless they've died, the people selling their cohousing units have to be able to live somewhere else. If the general market is expensive, it follows that the cohousing market will be too. I believe that buying undeveloped land and taking 5-10 years to dream it and build 15-25 units on it is 1) not meeting the demand, 2) more expensive now than it has ever been, 3) a bigger risk than it's ever been. The model of cohousing creation has to adapt and expand from this model in order to be financially realistic. Otherwise new "cohousing" will look more and more like self-funded gated communities. Which is NOT a cohousing community. Hafidha Seattle WA > On Jan 26, 2025, at 7:54 PM, b farris via Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] > cohousing.org> wrote: > > You are not out of touch. Creating housing that is affordable doesn’t seem > to be a priority in cohousing. I was actually thinking it would be a good > idea to create a new one with affordability as an important part of the plan. > Izzy
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