SURVEY RESULTS Survey results taken from the “Onesharedhouse 2030” on line survey into co living revealed some interesting results. Given that people who choose to live in a community environment want to do so to “share” aspects of their life, personal space and privacy still rank highly as those aspects of their life they want to maintain. 58% of people surveyed regard their private space as off limmits to others in the community and 39% regard it acceptable to share upon being asked. This is similar in the results for “Tolerance”. Most surveyed, regarded Garden and community areas, Common rooms, dining and kitchen areas as acceptable shared areas all around 10-11%.
TOLERANCE GARDENS AND OPEN SPACE 11% WI FI AND INTERNET 10% COMMON ROOM 9%
KITCHEN AREA 8% COMMON DINING 8%
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Looking at the survey as a whole, those elements that rank highly, apart from privacy,are those issuses of community ownership and a sense of belonging . Having a say in the mangement of the community and also having the abilty to select new members of the “assembly”rated at 73% of those surveyed on this issue. The abilty to share costs on energy, cleaning and utilities with the provision to pay extra for communual services which may be centrally located such as laundry, general cleaning or even day care were important to most surveyed when considering community living. When looking at the Pros and cons within the survey it is the elements of increased opportunities to socialise (39%) and the abilty to share costs and have a greater value in the housing (20%) that rank highly on the Pros side whilst the lack of privacy (35%) is the predominant element
Most surveyed regarded professionals with a background in Design ior Architecture best suited to the development of the overall community concept and that management of the community would best be suited to those who have ownership .
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