A unique affordable housing project in Sebastopol is combining a new co-housing community with the self-help or "sweat equity" approach to building it.

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Tom Kuhn, the Sequoia Village project manager for Burbank Housing, explains the co-housing aspect of the development.

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As future Sequoia Village homeowner Lee Logan sees it, this co-housing process has been different than most.

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Sequoia Village in Sebastopol, a new family co-housing development offered through Burbank Housing Development Corp, was facilitatied by the late Michael Black (left)   who was the architect for the Two Acre Wood co-housing project in Sebastopol (pictured below). 

 

To learn more about co-housing, visit  Planning for Sustainable Communities here.

 

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