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POSTINGS: Filling in the Long-Form Questionnaire; Census Form Omits Co-ops
Co-op shareholders who received the long-form
version of the year 2000 census questionnaire may be understandably
perplexed when trying to complete it.
Mary Ann Rothman, executive director of the Council of New York
Cooperatives and Condominiums, said that the form does not specify
how, or even whether, co-op shareholders should
indicate their ownership interests in their apartments and their
payments on share loans, property taxes and insurance. ''This
is unfortunate,'' she said , ''as it could prevent the government
from receiving an accurate count of homeowners in multiple dwellings
across the nation.''
Leonard Norry, assistant division chief of housing characteristics
for the Bureau of the Census, said that while there was no separate
category on the form for co-op or condominium apartments,
shareholders and unit owners who live in their apartments should
respond in the same manner as any other homeowner.
Accordingly, he said, co-op and condominium owners
who live in their units should answer questions 47, 48, 49, 50
and 51 -- which deal with mortgage payments, equity loans, property
taxes, insurance and the value of the property -- rather than
question 46, which should be answered only by rental tenants.
Mr. Norry added that question 52, which deals with condominium
common charges, should only be answered by condominium owners
who live in their units.