When Gina Athanasiou’s father died in 2016, she realized her mother, who bounced between Canada and Greece for most of her life, didn’t have a pension large enough to cover the soaring costs of a Toronto home.
The solution? Athanasiou, a real estate agent, invited her mother to move into the East York home she lived in with her husband and children.
“There is no way that my mother could have financially existed on her own in Toronto, if she didn’t have us to live with,” Athanasiou said.
The living arrangement that placed three generations of Athanasiou’s family under one roof is becoming increasingly common, Statistics Canada’s latest tranche of census data revealed Wednesday….