research-l Mailing List: Re: Land purchase: by group vs one member?

[Betsy Morris (Betsy]

Very interesting question. The FIC directory questionnaire does have info on how land and homes are owned during the formation process and eventually that gets updated.  

There are some other categories: 

—Land owned already by one or more future members (blueberry hill; Mariposa grove) 

—One individual/household/future resident provides majority of capital and leadership for land purchase and development (Champlain valley?;  Belfast;  Ashland? Yulupa; Phoenix commons);  some of these were developer/professionals who wanted to live in cohousing) and 

— Small/minority subset/core group members form LLC to buy land and finance development prior to sell off. (Burlington coho; Songaia ? Sawyer Ecovillage-mosaic commons and Camelot coho) this seems most typical but would be great to verify. 

I hope CRN looks into these ownership issues. 

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 4:33 AM Fred H Olson <cohousing.org [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

While the theoretical process of the development of cohousing is
very roughly something like:
Group formation
Recruit members
Find and buy land
build

We know groups do not always follow this sequence.
In particular, some communities had one member who bought land
they thought had potential for cohousing and then formed a group.

Does anyone have numbers on how many groups got built on
land purchased by one person vs land purchased by the group?

A further refinement would be urban vs rural land.

If not I'm thinking of setting up a survey about this.

Fred

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