Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: policies and practices for including renters in your community?

[Elizabeth Magill (pastorlizm]

Likewise, we have no difference in participation between renters or owners.

For rooms to rent, the owners decide if the renter is their own household
or part of the owner's household.
Renters cannot consense or vote on hoa issues but are otherwise the same as
owners with respect to membership.

(We have a separate category of Cohousing which is pretty much everything
except money for building repairs. )

-Liz
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM Kathryn McCamant <
kmccamant [at] cohousing-solutions.com> wrote:

> At my community, Nevada City Cohousing, we have wonderful renters living
> amongst our 34 townhomes. Some background.
>
> We are 34 attached townhomes, and moved in in 2006
>
> Our Participation Agreement refers to “residents” not owners or renters…
> we try to have the same expectations/treatment for both.
>
> Today:
> (3) people rent rooms in homes where the Owner is living
> (4) homes are rented to people who have now been living there for quite a
> few years. It actually took me a while to think this thru because I think
> of them all as valuable community members.
>
> All of our renters participate in meals, workdays, committees, and mostly
> monthly meetings.
>
> We find having rentals (rooms in a house, or a whole house) is our best
> way to bring in greater economic diversity, and we hope several of these
> renters will eventually buy in the community. Two of our whole house
> rentals are young familes, and most of our renters are at the younger range
> of our multi-generational community.
>
> I think that a general community orientation committee will do a better
> job of getting people involved, but best when both the landlord and
> community generally are putting out the “get involved, we’re glad you are
> here!” message.
>
> Over the years, not all renters have participated so much, but then again,
> they’d be quick to tell you that not all of our Owners participate all the
> time.  Overall, twenty years in, Nevada City Cohousing is as strong as ever
> and a great place to live! And we’ve been successful at bringing in the
> next generation, specifically young families with little kids since all the
> kids we had when we move in have gone off to college and beyond.
>
>
> Katie
>
>
>
> Kathryn McCamant, President
>
> CoHousing Solutions
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