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Housing Outside the Box: Creative, Affordable Options for Healthy Housing Symposium
October 13, 2018 @ 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
$20
The Housing Outside the Box Symposium will bring community members together to discuss the opportunities that exist for creative solutions for affordable, appropriate housing in our community. With a focus on sustainable, people-friendly solutions, we will hear from a variety of speakers sharing their knowledge and expertise, and have plenty of opportunity to learn and share ideas between professionals, researchers, older adults, students, community planners, and many others.
We will explore creative solutions that will allow people to stay in their existing homes by sharing with renters and housemates, approaches to small-scale shared housing such as co-housing and co-ops, and small scale development such as adding cottages or tiny houses on wheels.
We will include the essential: ways to find others we can share living with in confidence and happiness, as well as ways to cooperate to ensure tasks and maintenance are done reliably, even as we age. Our approach is multi-faceted so as to address and help in every way needed! It is community working together.
Our goal is that all attendees will leave the workshop with information, resources, and connections needed to move forward with opportunities to create sustainable and resilient housing solutions in our community. This will be a practical approach to support our community by focusing on solutions that are available to us now!
Schedule:
Schedule:
8:30 – 9:00 Registration and Displays
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:15 – 9:45 Keynote Address – Dr. Lori Weeks, PhD, Dalhousie U. Assoc. Prof. – “Promoting Healthy Community & Aging Through Innovative Housing”
9:45 – 11:15 Panel: Transforming a Private Home – Room Mates, Renovations, Suites. Also municipal policies & Community Navigators.
- HRM’s Affordable Housing Workplan, Alan Howell, Affordable Housing Planner for Halifax Regional Municipality
- Being There for the Transformation: Sharing Space & Renovating to Add a Suite, David Quinn, architectural/
residential designer - Community Navigator Role for Success, Pauline MacIntosh, StFX Extension Department
- Under One Roof – Bonding Between Generations, Hina Jawed, Co-founder, One Roof: Inter-Generational & Co-Living Matchup
- Converting Existing Homes to Cohousing, Bill Hockey, St. Margaret’s Bay Housing Coalition
10:15 – 11:30 Break & Displays
11:30 – 1:00 Panel: Cohousing, Cooperatives, Small Development, Tiny Houses on Wheels, “In-law” Cottages, Small Homes, etc.
- Building Small Cottages Around a Home & Condo-izing, Shari Johnson, Community Activist & Tradewinds Realty
- Intentional Communities, Michael Sheppard, Natura – Regenerative Community
- Cohousing From Scratch, Cate or Leon de Vreede, Bridgewater Cohousing
- Tiny Home on Wheels to Benefit Society, Danielle Pentland, LakeCity Works
1:00 – 1:30 Lunch & Displays
1:30 – 2:00 Keynote Address – Shawna Henderson, CEO, Bfreehomes, — “A Patchwork Quilt: The Pieces, Layers, and Threads of Sustainable Housing and Community”
2:00 – 3:30 Small Group Discussions
3:30 – 4:00 Summary of Small Group Discussions and Closing Remarks.
4:00 – 4:30 Stay a bit afterwards for Displays and Networking
Registration is required in advance for this event. Please visit our listing on eventbrite to book your tickets. Lunch and nutrition break snacks included. Location is just minutes from Halifax, approaching St. Margaret’s Bay.
This event is co-hosted by Transition Bay St Margarets and the St Margaret’s Bay Housing Coalition.
We would like to thank the Bay Treasure Chest for funding support through their honorarium program.