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Like many of the area’s long-term residents, retired librarian Nancy Hannum describes her False Creek South co-op community in almost idyllic terms, as a place where people know most of their neighbours and even strangers can be called upon for help.

But in the very same neighbourhood, she says, “there’s an underlying unease about what’s coming.”

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Hannum’s co-op is one of more than 50 on city-owned land in Vancouver. And like thousands of other co-op residents, she’s been waiting for the city to release a public discussion paper expected to set a framework for the future of Vancouver’s housing co-ops.

“First it was going to come in July. Then it was maybe September,” Hannum said. “People think it’s just stalling, they aren’t sure it’s ever going to come.”

That long-delayed white paper, described as crucial not only for almost 4,000 co-op households on city-owned land but also for the future of the city’s non-market-housing strategy more broadly, is finally expected this week.