Housing coops-who knew?

So in this lovely (and crazy expensive city) there are some interesting experiments in socialist housing. As much as we love our current house and especially garden, it is really expensive so we've decided to try to get into a housing co-op. We checked a number out yesterday and really liked what we could see from the outside. There are 7 around Commercial Drive which I think is my favorite neighborhood, I'm filling out applications for all of those. And we'll apply for a few that are in downtown or closer to the university. But really I think we want to live over by the drive. The waitlists for these places seem to be very long-probably at least a year, but might as well get the clock ticking.