Cohabitants, multigenerational homes rise amid rising costs, migration: census
TORONTO — When Gina Athanasiou’s father died in 2016, she realized her mother, who had bounced between Canada and Greece for most of her life, didn’t have a pension big enough to cover the skyrocketing costs of a house in Toronto. The solution? Athanasiou, a real estate agent, invited her mother to move into the East York home she shared with her husband and children. “There’s no way my mother would have existed financially on her own in Toronto if she didn’t have us living together,” Athanasiou said.
