Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Number of Adults Living in Cohousing

[Ann Zabaldo (zabaldo]

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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