Saskatoon HOME magazine Spring 2016

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. . . . . BUILDING A COM M U N I TY

The co-housing group acts like a collective, making decisions by coming to a consensus as a group. Everyone at Wolf Willow is 55 or older.

accessible shower on the main floor. Each resident has their own fully equipped apartment, but they also share spaces on the main floor, including a garden, workshop, craft room, large kitchen and exercise room

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with a sauna. “Having dinner with friends on the deck, walking our dogs on the river trails, feeling the comfort of neighbours who look out for you—to us is proof that we’ve found the perfect place to call home,” says Sylvie.

SPRING 2016

An Inspiring Trend Hundreds of co-housing communities have been built in Europe and the United States since the first ones were recorded in Denmark in the 1960s, but so far only about 10 have been completed in

Canada.There is interest in this idea, though. At least 16 more communities are in the process of forming or under development in Canada, including two more in Saskatchewan. Radiance in Saskatoon and Prairie Spruce in Regina are


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