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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.
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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