Cohousing Videos

What is a Home? from Turtlebox Productions on Vimeo.

Tim and Jana start a cohousing project from Dragonfly Cohousing on Vimeo.
For more Cohousing videos go to https://vimeo.com/search?q=Cohousing

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Social and Supported Housing

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Stepping Stone Society

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Intentional communities and care-giving co-housing possibilities

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Living Independently in a Home and Community of Choice: How?

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So Happy Together: A Cohousing Story

So Happy Together: A Cohousing Story
SFU Peak
2003-06-02

by Georgia Doerksen
I first discovered cohousing when it was already too late. I had already bought my leaky condominium. When I responded to a cohousing advertisement in the Shared Vision magazine, I immediately connected with the stranger on the other end of the phone – Alan Carpenter from the [...]

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Types of Seniors Housing

There are many different types of housing options available to older adults in British Columbia. Our Seniors Housing Directory of BC is divided by both the type of housing and the location. The information below is a brief summary or overview of the types of housing. A more complete definition is available here and the same information [...]

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Housing for Assisted Living in Inner-City Winnipeg

in Inner-City Winnipeg
A Social Analysis of Housing Options
for People with Disabilities
Michelle Owen, Ph.D., University of Winnipeg
Colleen Watters, MSW, Canadian Centre on Disability Studies
January 2005ii
This research was financially supported by the Winnipeg Inner City Research Alliance
(WIRA) which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
(SSHRC) and Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). The Institute [...]

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OLMSTEAD’S PROMISE AND COHOUSING’S POTENTIAL

OLMSTEAD’S PROMISE AND COHOUSING’S POTENTIAL

Carrie Griffin Basas*

INTRODUCTION

The Supreme Court’s decision in Olmstead v. L.C., 527 U.S. 581
(1999), called for the deinstitutionalization and integration of people
with disabilities in their communities. The Court clarified that Title II
of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) required that people
with disabilities, whenever feasible and appropriate, no longer be
shut away in nursing [...]

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Searching for home

Searching for Home’ national forum on homes for people with intellectual disabilities

Summary:

Join BCACL and the Canadian Association for Community Living for a national forum on real homes and real choice for people with intellectual disabilities.

Searching For Home
a national forum on policy, practice and innovation in building and sustaining real homes for people with intellectual disabilities
…join [...]

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