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The Homeownership Dividend: Owning A Home Is More Than Just A Roof Over Your Head

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The Homeownership Dividend: Owning A Home Is More Than Just A Roof Over Your Head

The Canadian Real Estate Association recently released the white paper, titled The Homeownership Dividend for Canadians which details the benefits of homeownership beyond only financial advantages by studying and collecting data from across Canada, the USA, Europe and many other places in the world. The results are not surprising. The benefits and advantages of home ownership go beyond finance, particularly for lower and middle income families and households and this phenomenon exists across the world.

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Brockton Village Eco Flats: Revamping Old Toronto Homes With A Green Design

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Brockton Village Eco Flats: Revamping Old Toronto Homes With A Green Design

Toronto has a housing crisis. That’s apparent and we’ve been talking about it for a while now. There’s plenty of creative solutions that we need to implement to combat this crisis and create a city that is affordable with high quality housing. We need to look towards the future and by that we mean we need to think about sustainability. Many of Toronto’s housing stock is dated and not built to function in an eco-friendly way. But there is a movement beginning in the housing market. Old and tired Toronto homes are starting to be revamped and transformed into housing that is environmentally friendly and modern. Today, we’re going to talk about two of these homes in Brockton Village that have been transformed from old and tired traditional family homes into eco-minded three-unit buildings.

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Laneways In Toronto Are A Success: Three Local Case Studies To Celebrate

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Laneways In Toronto Are A Success: Three Local Case Studies To Celebrate

We talked a few weeks ago about the new legislative changes that have allowed Toronto to build and construct laneway houses as a much needed action against the city’s housing crisis. Today we wanted to share some success stories with you from around Toronto.

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Co-Ownership Case Study: A Different Arrangement

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Co-Ownership Case Study: A Different Arrangement

The co-ownership movement is small but, as we’ve covered, it is gaining momentum. GoCo has worked with numerous groups and clients who have embraced a new means of house ownership and helped facilitate their own intentional communities. But GoCo didn’t invent co-ownership in housing. Before Lesli and her team were tirelessly working with groups around the GTA, co-ownership and cohousing arrangements were already being done. Today we wanted to talk about a lovely woman we interviewed who embraced a new model of housing ownership. Julia* told us her story of how she embraced a new way of home ownership in Toronto.

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Co-Ownership Case Study: The Golden Girls of Port Perry

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Co-Ownership Case Study: The Golden Girls of Port Perry

Perhaps one of the most famous groups in the world of co-ownership, the ‘Golden Girls’ of Port Perry are now considered the face of co-ownership in Ontario. As Ontario’s government pushes for alternative housing ideas to combat the housing crisis across the province, these four seniors came together and took advantage.

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Cohousing Spotlight: Terra Firma, Ontario's Only Completed Cohousing Community

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Cohousing Spotlight: Terra Firma, Ontario's Only Completed Cohousing Community

Located in the centre of Ottawa lies Ontario’s only completed cohousing community: Terra Firma. Terra Firma began in 1997 and is now home to 12 families. With a large common house and common garden, the residents of Terra Firma fully embrace their community and the true spirit of cohousing.

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Co-Ownership Case Study: Two Millennial Couples

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Co-Ownership Case Study: Two Millennial Couples

Co-ownership and cooperative real estate purchases are a great way for people to enter the real estate market. While Toronto’s market is competitive, millennials have found a way by buying together. Take the following case study of two millennial couples who were able to pool their resources together and purchase their first home in the Annex.

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Relegating Seniors to Ontario’s Long Term Care Facilities Is An Unsurprising Death Sentence

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Relegating Seniors to Ontario’s Long Term Care Facilities Is An Unsurprising Death Sentence

As COVID-19 continues its rampage across Canada, targeting the most vulnerable citizens, it is clear that Ontario’s long-term care facilities have failed its residents. Surely, the government and regulating bodies are taking every precaution to prevent spread across the province? Certainly in Canada there are stringent regulations that demand high-quality care and facilities for seniors? Unfortunately, it seems that that is not the case. The most vulnerable residents, those in aged care and long-term care facilities have been left to hide behind a mottled veil of apathy. And now COVID-19 is ripping that veil off and showing everyone just how broken the system is for the most vulnerable residents who have been left to fester in poorly managed, understaffed and neglected facilities.