Current Status
As of 2008, more than 28 people live in and share the house. Community participation includes bi-weekly meetings, organic gardening, housework, and two collective meals per day, and each member contributes roughly 25 euros/month to food costs. The working languages of the house are Catalan and Spanish, but as it is an international group, English, Italian, French, Basque, and Esperanto are also spoken.
The community hosts some guests who are either friends of the community or involved in service projects or movements which the community supports. The community receives far more requests to host people than it has the capacity to provide.
Unlike most squats and even intentional communities, Can Masdeu has quite low turn over, with no new vacancies over the last 2 years (2007 and 2008).
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