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European countries have embraced housing co-ops for decades to address housing affordability. Why not Canada? (Piqsels)

April 19, 2022

Housing co‑ops could solve Canada’s housing affordability crisis

Margaret Kohn, University of Toronto

In a period when homelessness and housing costs have reached crisis levels, it’s time to look at housing co-operatives as a potential game-changer.

Migrants rest on a Mediterranea Saving Humans NGO boat as they sail off Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa, just outside Italian territorial waters, on July 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Olmo Calvo)

July 7, 2019

People are drowning at sea. Why aren’t we saving them?

Margaret Kohn, University of Toronto

Authorities in Italy would sooner turn ships carrying migrants back to strife-torn countries like Libya rather than allow them to seek asylum. It’s amounting to repeated Voyages of the Damned.

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