Building a Co-operative Community in Public Housing : The Case of the Atkinson Housing Co-operative / Jorge Sousa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sousa, Jorge, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atkinson Housing Co-operative (Toronto, Ont.)--Case studies.

Atkinson Housing Co-operative (Toronto, Ont.).

Public housing--Ontario--Toronto--Case studies.

Public housing.

Housing, Cooperative--Ontario--Toronto--Case studies.

Housing, Cooperative.

Alexandra Park (Toronto, Ont.)--Social conditions--Case studies.

Alexandra Park (Toronto, Ont.).

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Public housing projects were the original form of government supported housing for low-income residents. Over the last fifty years many projects have struggled with high crime rates and numerous social problems. One solution proposed to address these ongoing issues is granting residents decision-making power within their community by converting into a co-operative. Building a Co-operative Community in Public Housing follows the journey of a Toronto public housing complex as it was converted into a resident-operated co-operative, a first in Canada. Jorge Sousa traces the story of Alexandra Park, which became the Atkinson Housing Co-operative in 2003 after a ten-year conversion process. Sousa, who himself was raised in the community, provides an empirical account of the contributing factors that influenced its decision to pursue community-based control, as well as the experiences of both residents and government officials engaged in this process. Finally, Building a Co-operative Community in Public Housing offers a framework for other communities facing similar circumstances who want to learn how to go about undertaking this process."--Page i

Contents:

Canadian public housing policy and programs

Constructing a theoretical lens to understand the conversion experiment

Exploring the circumstances that led to the conversion process

Formalizing the conversion process

Theoretical analysis of the Alexandra Park conversion process

Extending the conversion experiment

Afterword : pursuing the co-operative dream.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

ISBN:

1-4426-6638-2

1-4426-6637-4

OCLC:

865474968