Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Report on Survey of Cohousing Communities 2011. Just released. A must read!

[Mariana Almeida (missmgrrl]

Thanks, Neil and all the survey folks. This is very interesting.

I would be curious to learn more about this (p 9 at the bottom): 

In addition to the high positive correlations between sharing meals and 
participating in the ongoing work of the 
>community mentioned earlier, there were high correlations with the extent to 
>which a community enforces its work requirements. Greater enforcement of work 
>requirements was positively related to policies that allowed residents to buy 
>out of work and to the 
>number of work days that a community scheduled. 

Does this mean that communities that enforce the work requirements are more 
likely to have mechanisms by which people can buy out of the work requirement?  
That seems like a logical thing to find, but I want to check because the first 
sentence also says something about the correlation between sharing meals and 
working and enforcement in the next sentence.

And that all this means that a community may actually schedule more work days? 
Can anyone 

Mariana


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>From: Neil Planchon CPCC <neil [at] cohousing.org>
>To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
>Cc: Planchon CPCC Neil <neil [at] swansway.com>
>Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 10:51 AM
>Subject: [C-L]_ Report on Survey of Cohousing Communities 2011. Just released. 
>A must read!
>
>Blog entry: http://www.cohousing.org/node/4181
>Direct to survey (13 pages PDF): 
>http://www.cohousing.org/docs/2011/survey_of_cohousing_communities_2011.pdf
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>McCamant and Durrett Cohousing Books: http://www.mccamant-durrett.com/books.cfm
>Cohousing Association or the United States: http://www.cohousing.org
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>Simply outstanding.
>Thank you so much Diane, David, Lisa, Laura, the Cohousing Association  
>and all the volunteers!
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