Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Households to Adults Ratios

[Sharon Villines (sharonvillines]

The point of the ratios of units to adults is to see if it makes any sense
to measure the size of cohousing communities by counting units.

Unit counts seem to be standard in descriptions sent to the list but what do
unit counts mean? 

Counting active (or reasonably alive) adults gives a count, at least, of the
number of people who can influence community decisions and/or bargaining
power when purchasing goods.

One person reported the number of bedrooms. That may a better way to get a
sense of the relative sizes of different communities.

Counting children gives another view. I can't imagine living in a community
with 29 children and it must be very different than living in a community
with 4 which is what we have now (3 moving in in 2 months, others unborn).
But that is a different dimension than I was/am trying to get a sense of.

Not a scientific study. Only to be published back to the list.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org


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