Re: Number of Adults Living in Cohousing
From: Catya Belfer (catyapobox.com)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 06:01:47 -0800 (PST)
We could probably figure it out by number of communites x avg number of
units x avg household size?


     - cat

Catya Belfer   -  www.catya.org
Technical Director   -   www.cohousing.org
Cohousing in MA - www.mosaic-commons.org

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Ann Zabaldo <zabaldo [at] earthlink.net> wrote:

>
> Hi Raines!
>
> The Cohousing Research Network did collect a lot of this information but
> reported it in percentages.  I need numbers.  I’ve emailed both Diane
> Margolies and Angela Sanguinetti for the data.  I’m hoping to hear from
> them.  However, just in case, I’m hoping someone out there has a number
> they are using …
>
> Let us know how this shared pool is going to work. It sounds very useful!
>
> Best --
>
> Ann Zabaldo
> Takoma Village Cohousing
> Washington, DC
> Principal, Cohousing Collaborative, LLC
> Falls Church, VA
> 703.688.2646
>
>
> > On Jan 5, 2016, at 8:41 PM, Raines Cohen <rc3-coho-L [at] raines.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hmmm, how about we all count off. OK, "1". Who's next? ;-)
> >
> > Seriously, this sounds like a job for the Cohousing Research Network
> > members. I know that some folks (me included) are collaborating on
> starting
> > to build a shared pool of data like this, particularly for senior
> cohousing
> > communities but also with an eye to intergenerational communities. But
> this
> > is just getting started, and doesn't even have a baseline set of
> statistics
> > yet.
> >
> > I'll ask my wife Betsy Morris, who did some of the initial
> > communities-census data as Research Director for Coho/US and is part of
> > that collaboration.
> >
> > Note that the Communities Directory (curated by Fellowship for
> Intentional
> > Community, but also serving the directory on http://www.cohousing.org )
> has
> > become less useful for this kind of statistic, as it has stopped asking
> > questions including # of children that could be used to discriminate
> > against a protected category in housing rental/sales (look up "steering"
> in
> > a fair housing context), even though we only hope to use this data for
> > good, to make it easier for more people to find and live in community.
> >
> > Raines
> >
> > Raines Cohen, Cohousing Coach & Cohousing California Regional Organizer
> > Planning for Sustainable Communities (at Berkeley (CA) Cohousing)
> >  off to visit communities in Tucson (AZ) this week while at a nearby
> > conference
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