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NS Affordable Housing Commission publishes report with 17 recommendations
The much-anticipated report from our 17-member NS Affordable Housing Commission was released yesterday, May 31, 2021. I had the honour of sending the report to Minister Geoff MacLellan at 11am, and he...
View ArticleCanada’s rental housing crisis: Fifth Estate
We’ve all heard stories about the rising rental cost, evictions, and homelessness in Canadian cities in the past decade or more. For many mid-sized cities, this crisis has only reached them in the past...
View ArticleLessons from the ECOH Rental Housing webinar
I’m live blogging today from a webinar on rental housing hosted by the Expert Community on Housing (ECOH) through Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Anyone can join ECOH for free, and access...
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Federal budget doubles down on affordable housing
Yesterday’s federal budget announced several new items to improve the affordable housing crisis in Canada, while spending less than predicted on health care and national defense. Currently about...
View ArticleHamilton’s fate didn’t need to be predetermined
Hamilton’s foray into LRT sadly takes the same track of many other cities that have not considered how to maintain affordability in transit corridors. As Joey Coleman writes in The Public Record,...
View ArticleNew opinion piece on non-profit and co-op housing in Planning Theory & Practice
The amazing Lisa Bates guested edited an issue of Journal of Planning Theory and Practice (Vol. 23, Issue 2) focusing on “housing for people, not for profit.” This gave me a chance to explore a little...
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Comparing Malmö and Kitchener
In August and September, I was finally able to make good a promise to travel to Malmö, Sweden to conduct interviews with my colleague Lina Olsson at the University of Malmö. We had decided back in 2019...
View ArticleLaunch of UBC’s housing assessment research tools (HART)
The UBC Housing Research Collaborative, led by my PhD supervisor Penny Gurstein, has developed three tools: the first is a tool called HART (housing assessment research tools), a census-based tool that...
View ArticleSystemic Barriers to Affordable Housing in Land Use Planning: CMHC Roundtable
CMHC conducted 10 roundtables on barriers to affordable housing last year, in order to update its Corporate Strategy to reach its 2030 goal of everyone having a home they can afford. The CMHC Planning...
View ArticleScandinavian housing tenures: a convergence towards ownership
I’m currently back in Malmö, Sweden where I’m continuing research on several topics, including housing innovations in the non-profit sector. I’ve been reading about the different trajectories of...
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