{"id":21,"date":"2005-02-10T21:21:40","date_gmt":"2005-02-11T01:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2005\/02\/10\/neighbours\/"},"modified":"2007-02-16T00:34:41","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T04:34:41","slug":"neighbours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2005\/02\/10\/neighbours\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a1776\"><\/a>  Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;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&#8217;re practically right downtown, and we have <em>lots<\/em> of curb-appeal&#8230;)  Now, let&#8217;s add that you learn that membership in your neighbourhood association is only somewhere around 10%.  To reach the residents (owners <em>and<\/em> 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?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}