In January 2001, a small group of renters gave life to a new co-operative that addressed their need and desire for affordable, secure, healthy housing. Unable to access existing co-op housing and seeing little new development, the founding members of the Roofs and Roots Housing Co-operative wanted to create something different than the housing co-op models that existed. Through my research at...
Housing
Cory Rushton
Nicole Chaland
Date of Incorporation: March 25, 1985 (the actual housing co-op was built and occupied in 1986-87)
Membership: 44 (with additional Associate Members)
Activity: Providing housing for members and promoting co-operative housing issues.
Area: Commercial Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia
Allan Bartolcic
The REDA Co-operative Youth Program is A Unique Alberta Youth Experience. The REDA Co-operative Youth Program is one of...
Members
Canadian Co-operative Association (CCA)
It is hard to imagine compressing six months or a year of living and learning in a brand new environment into a scant 300 words. Yet that is exactly what six young people have done in the items that follow. With remarkable freshness and clarity, they capture some truths about co-operatives and about living outside of one’s comfort zone. In many respects, those are the same qualities that...
Sweta Patel
Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) is an autonomous organisation of the Department of Youth Affairs and Sports, Central Government, India. It has undertaken the promotion of the National Yuva Co-operative Society as a way to harness and to channel the productivity capacity of young people. Yuva means YOUTH.
