cohousing Archives - Nova Scotia Advocate

We’re friends, we’re just sharing a home. Residents fall victim to rooming house bylaw

September 18, 2018 2 Comments

Nobody wants illegal rooming houses, but not every arrangement where people live communally is a rooming house. One such household in Dartmouth North has been told by the city that they are exceeding the allowed number of boarders, and that one of the residents has to leave.

Letter: It’s time to build affordable and inclusive neighborhoods

May 31, 2018

“Exclusive lifestyles are profoundly antisocial. They lead to the creation residential and commercial ghettos. Inclusive culture makes space for and welcomes people of all cultures, abilities and income levels,” writes Kimberly Smith. We need more of the latter, and thinking about cohousing may get us there.