Kingston Cohousing’s first Annual General Meeting took place on Sunday May 3rd in the Providence Village Motherhouse Auditorium. We had an exceptional turnout and we were so pleased to welcome Provincial MPP, the Honourable Ted Hsu, Kingston City Councillors Conny…
Cohousing? Co-living? What’s the difference? When we talk about cohousing, we’re referring to an intentional community of private, self-contained dwellings, whether town houses or apartments, surrounded by common space. Co-living refers to arrangements where unrelated individuals choose to live under…
We are delighted to announce that Kingston Cohousing has been awarded a significant grant from the Community Housing Transformation Centre, a pan-Canadian non-profit organization backed by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), through Canada’s National Housing Strategy. Being chosen to…
Wishing Won’t make it Sew was a motto quietly displayed in the repair shop of Kingston’s much loved and now retired sewing machine expert, Vern Simkins. I bought my first machine from him, a Singer Featherweight, back in the 70s,…
Thinking Beyond the Market (This documentary was shown at The Screening Room on February 9.) ________ Tough Old Broads (Thank you Sheila for this recommendation.) ________ Treehouse Intergenerational Communities: The Village in Action (Supporting families adopting children from foster care.)
Ronaye Matthew has worked in the field of cohousing development for many years, during which time she has brought eleven cohousing projects to successful fruition. Margaret Critchlow has spent much of her academic career researching and writing about community housing.…
On November 1, fifteen KCH members and supporters met to tour the East Wing of Providence Village Motherhouse. We were accompanied by David and Cynthia McAuley, who developed and live in Watershed Cohousing in Guelph (designed by David). This tour…
Placemaking projects are community-led initiatives that aim to improve a place. They often build community connections or address a local challenge. Read about placemaking projects in this article, which was shared with us by Kathy Horton of Treehouse Village in…
I saw this image on the t-shirt of a fellow shopper in a supermarket. It called to me, so I asked to take a photo of it, and the fellow kindly agreed. We had a great conversation! Radical optimism is…
In preparing for my first ever trip to Saskatoon, to attend the Abbeyfield Canada* 40th Anniversary Forum, I contacted two completed cohousing communities there: Radiance Cohousing, and Wolf Willow. I received a warm invitation to meet with folks from Radiance,…