- Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Cohousing
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A type of intentional community composed of private homes with full kitchens, supplemented by extensive common facilities. A cohousing community is planned, owned and managed by the residents, groups of people who want more interaction with their neighbours.
- Communitas
Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life Resource Type: Book Published: 1960 Visions of urban life.
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1982
- Houses and Homes
Housing for Canadians Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 Canadians need access to sound housing in decent neighborhoods, writes author Sewell. And in order to achieve this, all ideoligical freight is to be jettisoned and deliver nothing but the straight goods. One solution is to build diverse neighborhoods and abolish the many building and planning codes that suppress the creation of affordable housing.
- A Self-management Approach to Housing
Resource Type: Article Published: 2002 Community land trusts (CLTs) have been formed in a number of communities in the USA in response to either disinvestment or gentrification. The CLT acquires land to take it permanently off the market and make it available for the use of the community. As a democratic organization, the CLT is intended to empower the community in determining what is done with land in that area. The CLT may rehab existing buildings, build new houses or apartment buildings, or do other types of development work.
- Squatters are not home stealers
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 The criminalising of squatters in Britain is part of a Europe-wide backlash. But with at least 10% of the world population squatting, can they really be a menace to society?
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