One form of multi-generational housing gaining popularity is the custom-built ground-level home within a home
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Publishing date: Jul 26, 2021 • 19 hours ago • 4 minute read • FlexHouz is a purpose-built home that has a separate apartment on the main floor, ideal for grandparents who don t want to have to climb stairs, or deal with a lack of light in the basement. On the second and third floors, there is living space for the main occupant. Photo by FlexHouz
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The COVID-19 pandemic and skyrocketing housing prices in the Toronto area have led to increased interest in a form of living that, over the decades, has waxed and waned in popularity: multi-generational living.
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École O’Kelly School at Canadian Forces Base Shilo has 150 military children attending. Wednesday was TEAL-UP day in recognition of military children. (Submitted)
Military children quite often face challenges their peers seldom do. They’re uprooted continuously as they follow a parent or guardian’s military career across the country.
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Military children quite often face challenges their peers seldom do. They’re uprooted continuously as they follow a parent or guardian’s military career across the country. Sometimes a parent is gone on a six-month deployment (overseas). They’re away from extended family. They’re always moving between bases and they move to a different school constantly, said Shannon Chapman, youth programs co-ordinator for the Shilo Military Family Resource Centre.