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  1. Access to Housing, A Regional Perspective
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1980
  2. Bain Avenue controversy - Ulli Diemer replies
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
    There is no dispute about the importance and validity of economic demands, whether in the workplace or in the community. What is under dispute is Wages for Housework’s insistence that money is the only thing around which it is permissible to organize.
  3. Bain Co-op Meets Wages for Housework
    A political thriller

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1977
    The story of the struggle that gave birth to a housing co-operative and destroyed the credibility of the 'Wages for Housework' sect.
  4. Canadian Cohousing Network
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Resource for the cohousing movement which seeks to create and maintain neighbourhoods which emphasize a supportive, inter-generational community, common facilities and participation by all members using a consensus process to make decisions.
  5. Cohousing and Sustainabliity
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    How co-housing promotes social, economic and ecological sustainability.
  6. Cohousing Characteristics
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The main characteristics of cohousing.
  7. Cohousing FAQs
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Frequently asked questions about cohousing.
  8. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  9. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 3 - Fall 1984 - Housing - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  10. Connexions Annual 1989
    A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  11. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1994
    Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
  12. Connexions Annual Overview: Community, Urban, Housing
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  13. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  14. Dark Age Ahead
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
  15. Directory of Housing Co-operatives and Resource Groups
    Periodical profile published 1982
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  16. Fighting Back
    Urban Renewal in Trefann Court
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  17. Food, Shelter and the American Dream
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  18. Get a Life!
    How to make a good buck dance around the dinosaurs and save the world while you're at it
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
  19. Highrise and Superprofits
    An Analysis of the Development Industry in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  20. The Real World of City Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  21. Seven News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1970
    Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in Toronto's Ward 7 from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but some articles and other background are available on this Web site.
  22. The Trouble With Co-ops.
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  23. What is Cohousing
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  24. Your Housing Options
    Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
    Published: 1982

Experts on Housing in the Sources Directory

  1. Artscape
  2. BASF Canada
  3. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
  4. Canadian Institute of Planners
  5. Citizens for Public Justice
  6. Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada
  7. Town of Markham
  8. Ontario Real Estate Association
  9. PJ Wade --The Catalyst
  10. Real Estate Council of Ontario
  11. Sistering: A Woman's Place
  12. Toronto Real Estate Board

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