Co-living

OMG, you're so old you don't even know what OMG means! That's a comment that might well be made at an editorial meeting of affordablehousingaction.org — not exactly important...

In the aftermath of the Great Recession (2007-2009), there was a big government spend in the United States. Media stories at the time reported that banks benefitted from government...

Two unrelated people buying a house is becoming more common, not only in EuropeTry: Not Married But Need To Share A House? Verantwortungsgemeinschaften! , but also the United States. The...

Amsterdam's current housing plan literally gives residents a hands-on role in solving the city's crisis of housing affordability. Literally. While most cities are consulting with residents, 13 sites in...

Popular in the news at the moment? A means to afford ever more expensive homes when marriage and sharing doesn't seem the answer to the problem. Here are two...

People who follow affordable housing issues in the United States will be familiar with the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC). It launched in 1986. By 2024, LIHTC had...

The Silver TsunamiSilver Tsunami refers to the post world war II population bulge (the baby boom) which will continue to swell the population of seniors for the next decade....

A contemporary study of almshouses in the United Kingdom has found evidence that they may stretch an individual life expectancy by 2.5 years. How long have we known about...

Could a 'Mommune' be a better mothering support than a conventional nuclear family? It's entirely possible, even if this news might be powerfully upsetting to conventional family traditionalists. What exactly...

Somewhere in many housing activist minds there are secure thoughts of assurance for their interests: in one or two locations in the world truly successful public housing projects exist! Wall...

Here's a story about how people can be badly misinformed about themselves, even when they know full well what their own qualities are. They are homeless, and anything but...

"And who shall tidy this?" quoth the elders (not very old) their faces freighted with wisdom beyond their years. And lo, the others hung their heads and scuttled away,...

Numerous recent articles in the press have presented as a dropping of jaws and a slapping of cheeks in horror. The outrage: a forced trend of 'student-style' co-living, also...

If the great social economist Karl Marx correctly identified the economic underpinnings of a 19th century world, the 21st century has surely morphed into an entirely new framework that...

Let us, for the sake of argument, assume that all university students are angelic and deserving of rescue from a current fate: unaffordable student housing. So you're delighted you've been...

Winning a lottery is undeniably an opportunity. The sudden change in circumstances comes with its own consequences, not all of them good. As well, most people don't win lotteries....

Oakville, Ontario's Norma Gamble is inventive. In existing single detached homes, she sees opportunities for shared living. And, with persuasion and an accommodating housing market, she's been able to...

From Colorado and Pennsylvania comes news of housing projects for seniors that will add to the existing housing choices for people as they age. Both are founded on evidence that...

The burden of COVID-19 illness has fallen particularly hard on people with very low incomes and on visible minorities. Now, research from Toronto suggests that spiralling housing costs could...

The pro's and con's of co-livingFor a discussion of co-living and the potential benefits, see: Co-living: What Is It? Who Does It? Why Bother? have been receiving considerable coverage...

This is for those who have never been a starving student sharing a home space with one or more 'might-one-day-be-friends', but not if they carry on the same way. This...

Apologies for the doom-laden headline, but there's seldom a chance to use a pithy poetic-sounding phrase, particularly one that containeth that sophisticated 'eth' sound. After all, a sleazy single...

Free market devotees are getting rather boxed into a corner these days when it comes to proposing solutions for affordable housing crises. There are still hopeful cries everywhere from the...

Vancouver, BC is the least affordable city in North America, with a high proportion of households with low incomes compared to Canada as a whole. As well, it's a...

Affordable Housing through co-livingSee: Co-living: What Is It? Who Does It? Why Bother? tends to burst into the news with statements from folks delighted with the savings in basic...

With housing becoming increasingly unaffordable, ingenious ways of reducing shelter costs abound. One trending fad featuring in the news media: co-living. A boon? A bust? There are two sides to...

The search for housing affordability has recently focused attention on the benefits of co-living.Try: Co-living: What Is It? Who Does It? Why Bother? That co-living involves responsibilities as well...

What is it? Co-living, in its broadest sense, means living with others. Since society has several traditions that involve co-living, not the least of which is the family, its currently...

George Orwell's novel, 1984, was published in 1949. It defined a category of science fiction which is today called 'dystopian' — the very opposite of life in some rosy future...

Can government or charitable grants and subsidies fuel a housing revolution and overcome today's affordability crisis? If so, it's sure not happening yet, if ever. Alternatives? Turns out they're popping...

Simple solutions have a way of finding themselves. Some reports suggest that at ground zero of the affordable housing crisis — the state of California — grand schemes for generating...

Room sharing, flat sharing, or house sharing by students can be a delightful experience. Still, stories abound of horror-show partnerships that mar this often-necessary college-age adventure. The misfortunes of a...

Anyone who lives in a college or university town quite probably understands shared housing. Barf on the sidewalk. Beer-bottles perched on the front step. Grass a foot high. Six bicycles...

In the spirit of its 'NICE' acronym, Canada's National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly is embarking on an admirable and extremely ambitious affordable housing initiative. The charitable...

Cheek-by-jowl living but not necessarily partnership? A little cooperation can turn a collection of cash-strapped couples and singles into homeowners, without the need of waiting lists, agency approval, out...

At a recent national mayor's conference in Boston, that city shared some of its current experiments in the creation of more affordable housing. Read more in The Bay State...

Partnership and family have long been a first stepping stone into adulthood, whether a formal or informal union, plus or minus children. But a conventional "Rush to Marriage" today no...

For a city like Toronto, Ontario, amalgamated in 1998 from 6 separate municipalities, rooming houses are a festering affordable sore on the tender underbelly of urban housing. Pre-amalgamation Toronto...

If you can't quite afford a Hong Kong microscopic (nano) apartment by yourself then why not co-live? So suggest enthusiastic Hong Kong realtors. Social conventions such as courting and...