Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: List purpose, Cohousing Information (Much Ado About Nothing)

[Peg Blum (pegb]

Peter Scott said:
> One simple thing we can do is
> to get a database going which records each projects general vital stats
such as
> unit numbers, unit sizes, density, materials etc, but also stuff like
visitor
> numbers, appraisels, resales frequency and prices. This could be a
webbased
> interactive thing.

At last year's North American Cohousing Conference in Amherst, MA, I seem to
recall Katie McCamant state that she was about to begin collecting data as
described above.  Is that happening?  If so, I don't think Cambridge
Cohousing has been approached for info.  Or was it something that we were to
do voluntarily??  If TCN is looking for research topics, that might be one
place to start...I know it's only survey research but it sure would be nice
to have such data available in one place.  Would also prevent some of the
individual inquiries that we all get.

BTW at Cambridge Cohousing, we try to accomodate as many requests as we can
for tours of our place because most of us believe it is one way to help
spread the word about cohousing.  I believe many other communities do the
same.

Peg Blum
--Presently recovering from helping to welcome about 55 neighborhood kids
(plus 20 or so coho kids) for the 3rd annual "Trick or Treat."  Fun!  Had a
table out in front of our common house with Jack-o-Lanterns, treats, special
effects and costumed adults.