Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Group Size Units to Adult Ratios

[Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddess]

Yeah, I was doing it when my daughter was refusing to get dressed for 
school. That's my excuse, and I'm sticking with it.

Liz

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>From: Kevin Wolf <kjwolf [at] dcn.davis.ca.us>
>To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
>Subject: Re: [C-L]_Group Size Units to Adult Ratios
>Date: Thu, Apr 26, 2001, 9:26 AM
>

> At 09:14 AM 4/26/01 -0700, you wrote:
>>A ratio is a division problem.
>>
>>25/35=~.714 adults per household
>>
>>43/53=~.811
>>
>>So you have a slightly higher ratio of adults to households. However, at the
>>Madison, WI group, the ratio is 17/28=~.607, so they have fewer adults per
>>household. This doesn't take children into account at all.
>
> Liz
> I would turn it around.  At N Street we have 17 houses and 37 adults
> .  Thus 37/17 equals 2.2 adults per household.  I doubt houses will average
> less than one adult per household, so I would reverse your ratios.  Thus
> 35/25 = 1.4 adults per house.
> 53/43 = 1.2 adults per house
>
> This tells me that these communities have a lot of single parents or small
> houses with single people living in them.
>
> At N Street we have two houses with  single parents and kids.  One adult
> lives in a granny flat apartment.  Three rental houses have 3 single adults
> in each.  The common house has four single people living in the four
> bedrooms.    One house has a married couple and child renting out a room to
> a single adult.   Another single adult rents a room in her home to another
> single adult.   The rest of the houses are more or less traditional
> families with two adults and kids per house.     In our early days our
> ratio was about 3 adults per household but has been going down as more of
> the rental houses have been bought and over time the owners don't need or
> want to rent out rooms like they did when they first bought them.
>
> Kevin
>
>
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