Neighbours
February 10, 2005 at 9:21 pm | In yulelogStories | 2 CommentsLet’s say you’re newly elected to a neighbourhood association board, and you learn that ~70% of residents in your neighbourhood are home-renters, not home-owners, and that your neighbourhood association membership consists of just a very few home-owners. (All those mansions the neighbourhood is famous for were converted to apartments long ago, and we all live cheek-to-jowl now, renting, mortgaged, owning, whatever! Yet keep in mind that the eagle-eye of the developers is on communities like this: we’re practically right downtown, and we have lots of curb-appeal…) Now, let’s add that you learn that membership in your neighbourhood association is only somewhere around 10%. To reach the residents (owners and renters), you have a newsletter, and you have leafletting. You have a website, too. Any ideas specifically for convincing renters to claim a stake, or even for getting their attention in the first place?
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