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'When Lexie Gonzalez was growing up in public housing, she believed that she
would never own a home.
"It wasn't a value instilled in me that I could own my own house," she says.
Her partner Mark Doonan feels the same: "All I've ever done is rent," he says.
The couple is talking in the Kempsey region, about an hour north of Port
Macquarie, with the sound of birds chirping in the background.
Doonan had been renting in Mullumbimby in the Byron Shire when his job folded
and he could no longer afford it. "It made me feel vulnerable," he says.
But then Doonan and Gonzalez discovered Goolawah Cooperative, a
neighbourhood-to-be that would become their home.
The Goolawah Cooperative is an example of a Rural Landsharing Community (RLC),
an alternative and typically more affordable form of home ownership.
An RLC is similar to Multiple Occupancy (MO), in which a company or a
cooperative owns a block of land. Instead of residents then purchasing a
divided lot, they purchase a share within the company or cooperative and
then build a home on the land.
RLCs and MOs typically end up costing less than buying individual lots and
only one set of rates is required, which also keeps costs down.'
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
