Yes – and Toboggan Flats can do it. The secret to building the next unicorn is not a better pitch deck or a shinier accelerator. It’s having the right people living down the hall to build it fast. That’s the idea behind hacker houses. Ever heard of Google, Facebook, or Andy Warhol? Proximity enables the conditions […]
An important note from our CEO. Two years into our journey, and we are closer than ever to opening Toboggan Flats first building. We are in the process of buying an empty office building in downtown Ottawa to convert it into 390 below-market rental coliving units. Worker housing for 390 people. Opening date in early
We interrogated the young people in the office about what gifts they actually want this year. Their first answer? Money. So we pushed: “Okay… other than money?” Then they said a time machine—so they could go back and buy a house before they were born. So yes, our official recommendation is to get the young people
The federal government’s new budget was approved this week, and while it touches many important national priorities, we’re looking at it through a specific lens at Toboggan Flats: What’s missing Housing for young people. This budget places strong emphasis on economic growth and competitiveness. But if young people are expected to help fuel that future,
“What if coliving had a toque?” That was the opening line of our Coliving Awards application — and now, a few months later, Toboggan Flats just won Emerging Coliving Concept at the Global Coliving Awards 2025! Robert said it best in his video from the awards: “We’re not just building housing — we’re reimagining how young Canadians can live, work, and
Back in January, Toboggan Flats launched a project with a big question at its heart: Could Canada’s empty offices become affordable coliving homes for the community housing sector? With support from the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), we set out to explore what we’ve long believed—that converting underused office buildings can createhousing that is faster,
