Housing coop still thriving 30 years later
I recently moved into a two-bedroom townhouse in Cathedral Court, a housing coop in St. Lawrence neighbourhood, and attended my first annual general meeting. Rather than a for-profit landlord, coops elect a board of directors from among the members and decisions are made democratically. Aside from an array of interesting neighbours, all of them committed in their own ways to the ideal of a coop, I was struck by how well-managed things seemed to be.