How a group of friends and strangers are launching a housing plan that experts say could be cure for the high cost of living and social isolation.
— “Hi, we’re Doug and Mardi. If it wasn’t for the pandemic, we’d have you in for a drink. Meantime, if you ever need to borrow a cup of sugar, just knock.”If it was a test of the idea that knowing your neighbours helps you live longer — something Doug had been reading about — “that community has an important life-giving function,” the condo had already failed.
When the lockdowns ended, community felt more important than the city and, the passage of years has added to that perspective. “The pandemic showed us that if you’re living on your own, you really are on your own during a time like that. Yes, I figured out how to use the technology and it was fine. But I also realized I don’t want to do that again,” said Jensen.
The co-living arrangement is about caring but not caregiving, although it supports aging in place. The Oakview Lodge founders say they are aware that they won’t necessarily live there to the end of their lives. The idea of shared home ownership had been gaining ground as a solution, not only to the high price of GTA real estate, but to the issues that can afflict an aging and sometimes alienated urban population.
There was no way of telling prospective members what the shared costs of remodelling would be or how long it would take, said Doug Tindal. Oakview Lodge incorporates a different mix of people. The Tindals, who had been spending time at their son and daughter-in-law’s nearby cottage, only met Schmiegelow and Herbert in August.
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