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A Guide to Co-operative Housing: Chapter 2 What Others Have Done

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St. Patrick’s College, Institute of Social Action (ISA)

Chief Editor Gerald E. Clarke

p. 13-14

(f) THE COADYVILLE HOUSING Co OPERATIVE 98. Ronnie McDougall, Secretary of the Coadyviile Housing Co-op, Sydney, N. S., reports that their $400 homes would have cost $8000 if they had been built individually. As the average income of the members was $50 per week, they would have had to continue in crowded rooms and paying high rent but for the co-op. 99. This group started with twelve men, and only one dropped out.