Co-op Housing: The Best Move We Ever Made

197522 min 25 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Laura Sky

Production: Kathleen ShannonLen Chatwin

Script: Laura Sky

The film explores the dimensions of the housing crisis in Canada, the definition of cooperative housing, and its possibilities as described by some of the people who are living in such dwellings today. Here, housing is owned and operated by people as users, not as investors. The film emphasizes an alternative in housing: security of tenure and mutual aid as the owner-families have come to value them.

Subject categories


  • Architecture > Homes and HousingUrbanism
  • Urbanism > Housing and Public Housing
  • Social Issues > Urban Life
  • Family Studies/Home Economics > HousingRelationships
  • Civics/Citizenship > Human Rights

Credits


director
Laura Sky
script
Laura Sky
narrator
Laura Sky
producer
Kathleen Shannon
executive producer
Len Chatwin
photography
Carol Betts
Nesya Shapiro
John F. Phillips
Joan Hutton
sound
Aerlyn Weissman
editing
Ginny Stikeman
sound editing
Flora Lee Wagner
Jackie Newell
re-recording
Jean-Pierre Joutel
music
Laurent Coderre