When Elizabeth Wilcox’s family started growing, her small Mount Pleasant condo started feeling even smaller.

She knew they needed more space, but who can afford a detached home in Vancouver?

“We were looking in the suburbs, we were looking in Squamish, we were looking at having to leave the city,” she said.

Elizabeth and her husband went an unconventional route: they pooled their resources with another couple — strangers to them — and bought a house together.

As the goal of home ownership continues to become more and more difficult to achieve in Vancouver, some people are considering co-ownership with friends, family, or even strangers.

This may involve sharing the upper and lower units of a Vancouver Special, or a main unit and a laneway house, but share common spaces, such as the ba

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