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"@Walker- I can tell you from experience that voting in local elections is a readily obtainable fact. In my former ANC and in other elections I helped with it became apparent that residents of rowhouses, including condo units in rowhouses, voted close to 100% in all elections, including just local ones. OTOH a couple of middle-to-upper income apartment and condo buildings with over 50 units had almost no voting by registered residents in purely local elections. And forget them coming to neighborhood meetings, etc. unless their particular ox were being gored"

A. I would imagine anyone in a condo building has community affairs to attend to WITHIN their condo building, which IIUC can be non-trivial. Thats also community involvement.
B, There is still a likely selection bias

None of which has anything to do with the question of "wastefulness"

BTW, as long as we are addressing personal experience, I lived in an apt in a building in a rowhouse nabe in Baltimore, and I attended two neighborhood association meetings and I was a renter (I was also involved in a community religious org).

I also know that the (nongated) TH area I live in in Fairfax has far lower than 100% turnout in national elections, let alone local. So I suspect your 100% turn has less to do with the intrinsic nature of townhouses, and has more to do with selection.

by AWalkerInTheCity on Jun 20, 2012 3:51 pm • link • report