The Cooperative Advantage for Social Inclusion Meets Uncooperative Government Regulation: International Cooperative Principles and Cooperative Housing Regulation in the Province of Ontario, Canada

Marika Morris ()
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Marika Morris: School of Canadian Studies Carleton University

Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity, 2015, vol. 4, issue 1, 28-51

Abstract: Canadian housing cooperatives are a tool for building an inclusive society, bringing together people diverse in income, race, age, and ability/disability. This six-year case study of an Ottawa, Ontario, Canada housing co-op found that co-op housing provided benefits for its members: reducing the depth of poverty; increasing physical, material and emotional help; and catalyzing social integration, greater social capital, safer communities, organizational experience, skills-building, networking, and political mobilization. However, the legal framework in which co-ops operate and a lack of resources prevent Ontario housing co-ops from fully adhering to International Co-operative Alliance principles and ensuring that all members benefit equally from co-op housing.

Keywords: cooperatives; housing; social inclusion; social capital; public policy; poverty reduction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I38 I39 L38 O15 O18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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