Open House Event – Join Us Online | August 24th, 2024 at 9am PT
Our Model
Key Guiding Principles
Ownership Model
- Parents’ Homes: Every family owns their home in the traditional home ownership model. Each family can take a regular mortgage, if needed.
- SI Homes: Our LLC will own 5 homes that are pre-designated as “SI Homes”. Each of these homes will have 3 Master Suites - each to be occupied by one of our SpeciallyAbled Individuals (SIs). Each family will own a share in this LLC that in turn entitles their SI to occupy an assigned Suite in one of the SI Homes. Partial ownership of the LLC will be governed by the Subscription Agreement and other relevant legal agreements of the LLC.
- Home Owners Association (HOA): All families will be part of our HOA to oversee the maintenance and upkeep of our community. HOAs are responsible for a variety of tasks, such as managing the budget, enforcing community rules, and maintaining common areas, planning social activities for our community and other such items. HOA fees will be applicable for each home in the Community.
- Home Models and Price: We will likely have 3 models to choose from with price ranging from $1M - $1.5M based on lot size, home size and options chosen. This price includes the share of all the common facilities including the Community house.
- ADUs for Expansion: We are exploring the use of ADUs to build additional capacity - to be used for single parents, additional housing for SpeciallyAbled, care providers, community manager, or even simply as a smaller unit (lower priced).
- Professional Management: A professional Community Manager will oversee the services for all of our SpeciallyAbled working with the specific agencies for each SI, maintenance of all common areas including the Community house, and other assigned responsibilities. Apart from traditional HOA fees, all families will decide the specific areas of responsibilities and also contribute towards the cost of such Management infrastructure.
Decision-making and Governance Model
We have adopted a Consensus-based framework called Sociocracy – for decision-making on key policies. Individual committees operate different aspects of our Community while the big ticket items will have to be managed by the “Committee of the Whole”.
Sociocracy is a decentralized, consensus-based decision-making process that seeks to distribute power equally among all members of a community. It is often used in organizations and communities that want to be more democratic and inclusive. Some of the benefits of sociocracy include increased participation, transparency, and accountability.
Our Membership Model
Interested Member
Free
- Wants to learn more
- Receives 1-page intro
- Gets invites to Explorer information events
- Added to mailing list for events and general announcements
- Attends info session
- Add to Member Management Software
- Add to Whatsapp group
Explorer Member
$100
- Valid for 6 months
- Gets abridged deck
- Completes enrollment Google form
- If interested, personal call from 1-2 founders
- 1-2 founders as “guide”s
- May join sub-committee
- Added to Slack, Google Drive, etc.
- Attend all Explorer Events and Meetings
Founder
$5000
- Have a SI that will be part of the Community
- Lifetime Validity
- Full Voting member
- Joins any subcommittee(s)
- Fully aligned with the Vision/model
- Is current on all payments
Join our Events Online or In-Person
We conduct ongoing events with educational content for parents of the SpeciallyAbled across a variety of topics including Housing, Support Services, Services available in California, Estate Planning, Special Needs Trusts, ABLE Accounts, and many others. Join our email list to be informed