Second Units Info Sheet
My husband and I have been considering our future housing. One concept that keeps arising is building a secondary unit onto [...]
Unitarian Commons – a Faith Community Co-housing Project
Unitarian Commons has been working on a 20 unit, multi generational, Universal Design, co-housing community as part of a larger condo [...]
Pathways to Homelessness and Home Again
Aged persons who are isolated, live alone, and lack economic stability and family or social supports are at great risk for becoming [...]
Hamilton’s Laneway Homes
Former garages turned into attractive small homes in Hamilton's laneways are being encouraged by Hamilton’s new zoning laws. They are tiny by [...]
Jury Rigging Affordable Granny Flats
When my mom moved in with her Parkinsonism, blindness and short-term memory loss we had to Jury-rig in a hurry. A handyman, [...]
One Shared House – Co-living
When she was 5 years old Irene Pereyra’s mom answered an ad: “Community looking for parent with 5 year old child”. There [...]
Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities – the OASIS Model
I recently received an invitation to an OpenLab webinar series about innovative approaches to aging-in-place. The first, “Taking Charge: New models for [...]
Co-housing Project for Low-income Renters
In March of 2016 while visiting family in Sebastopol California I dropped by Petaluma Avenue Homes, a Cohousing project featured in a [...]
Meet the housemates with a 68 year age gap
Two generations back many of us still had family structures we counted on, people we looked out for, out of duty and [...]
Tiny Home Magic
I have been a student and follower of Dr Bill Thomas’ for many years. Starting in the early 1990’s Bill and his [...]