More than Just Homes: Resilience Through Community

We are exploring the range of homes created within a context for affordability, community and for environmental reasons…..or all three. Including tiny homes for the homeless, tiny house clusters, cooperatives, cohousing, community land trusts, floating homes, and the need to reimagine the village.

Hey Neighbour! Field Trip

Last month, I was part of diverse group of stakeholders from the housing, public health, municipal, private and non-profit sectors who were invited by the City of Vancouver on a Hey Neighbour! field trip to tour friendly buildings in the city.

Proud of my Housing Co-op

I’m proud to see my housing co-op featured in Vancity‘s latest campaign! Vancity has been a great community partner, of not only First Avenue Athletes Village Housing Co-operative (my home co-op), but of the broader co-operative and community housing sector in BC. It is great to play a small part in helping to promote the work…

Squeezed Out

The majority of young people now go to school longer to compete in an economy that pays less for full-time work while charging much, much more for the primary cost of living — a home.