CMHC-SSHRC funded group of academic and community-based housing researchers with a focus on housing affordability in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal, Canada 🍁
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Our first Research in Progress webinar of the season is tomorrow!
Hear from Chiyi Tam, Managing Director of the Toronto Chinatown Land Trust, on how community-owned housing has kept Toronto’s Chinatown affordable for the long term.
✍️ Register here: buff.ly/qyA1McG
With the Vancouver Municipal election just days away, our partners from @BCNPHA's Housing Central team have developed a suite of resources to help voters engage in informed conversations about affordable housing & community housing solutions. Click the links below for more:
Community Housing for Municipal Candidates: buff.ly/nL1wQkD
Municipal Elections for Community Housing Providers: buff.ly/qK70FJc
Community Housing at the Local Level—Tools & Resources: buff.ly/rbl0TJ3
More on the Resource Hub: buff.ly/aIvucIg
Happening next week: Research in Progress webinar with TCLT's Chiyi Tam.
Learn how community-owned housing has kept Toronto’s Chinatown affordable for generations, why that system is at risk, and what’s needed to protect it.
Click below to register ⬇️
Our first research in progress webinar of the season is coming up!
At 10 AM on October 20, join Chiyi Tam from Toronto Chinatown Land Trust as she shares research findings from our recent Community Owned Housing in Toronto's Chinatown report.
Register: buff.ly/rbqxO3a
HRC's Fall Newsletter is out!
BSH highlights include:
📊 New research on supportive & community-owned housing
🏘️ Recommendations on strengthening Canada’s affordable housing system
🎤 Highlights from the CLT Summit
🎧 New podcast episode & so much more
Click for details ⬇️
HRC's fall newsletter is out!
Click to learn more about our recent research, latest tools, upcoming and past events, and much more from @ubcHART, @BSHNode, and @HousingRsrch.
Read the full newsletter here: preview.mailerlite.io/previe…
Is home ownership still the dream?
UBC experts debated it. Our takeaway: market supply alone won’t make housing affordable. We need security of tenure for renters and intergovernmental action on core housing need, not ownership subsidies.
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At the #CLTSummit in Ottawa, held over the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, one question kept resurfacing: what does it mean to leave something behind for future generations?
Read our full reflections here: buff.ly/ToQpVQu
Our first research in progress webinar of the season is coming up!
At 10 AM on October 20, join Chiyi Tam from Toronto Chinatown Land Trust as she shares research findings from our recent Community Owned Housing in Toronto's Chinatown report.
Register: buff.ly/rbqxO3a
Why don't affordable housing projects stay affordable? Yukon's new statutory covenant binds affordability rules to every future owner—not just the first. BSH is researching this model with Northern CLT, whose project helped catalyze the legislative change.
Learn more from NCLT's Director, Sarah Newton at the #CLTSummit next week in Ottawa ➡️ buff.ly/5KuelfW
For more, read our recent blog: buff.ly/Uy457lu
Listen to the latest episode of The Overhead w/ @SpacingRadio!
In this episode, Drs. Alina McKay & Colin Phillips talk about the physical and systemic barriers facing people living with a disability who are trying to access housing in Canada.
Listen now: buff.ly/BUwof2j
The #housing crisis needs more than incremental fixes. It needs a rights-based reckoning. The BSH network identified 4 core problems holding back #affordablehousing & what it will take to fix them.
Explore the report: buff.ly/606OBWy
Read the blog: buff.ly/8x8bnYe
Is home ownership still the dream, or is it time to rethink secure housing?
Join UBC experts, featuring BSH Director Dr. Alexandra Flynn, for a webinar on affordability & what housing stability could look like beyond ownership.
Oct 7, 12 PM PT
Register: buff.ly/ogVOicp
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Housing was front & centre at Tuesday's Vancouver mayoral debate—hosted by HRC, @ubcHART, @BSHNode & @UBCSauderSchool. Candidates @kareemformayor @rebeccaleebligh @PtFry & @CllrHardwick addressed affordability, supportive housing & the homelessness crisis.
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The CLT summit is just around the corner! Join us in Ottawa this month where we'll put the right to housing centre stage w/ Drs. Alexandra Flynn, Carolyn Whitzman & @HousingLogement as they discuss Canada’s next NHS.
Grab your ticket before it sells out!
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📢 Next week!
Join HRC's @BSHNode and @ubcHART & @UBCSauderSchool's Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate for the Vancouver Mayoral Debate you don't want to miss.
Register for free by Sept. 7: ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/fo…
More details: bsh.ubc.ca/vancouver-mayoral…
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The Limited Dividend program has helped deliver >100,000 low- & moderate-income rental homes, but BSH researchers have found it actually provides a blueprint for housing financialization.
📘 Read the article: buff.ly/e9dK3Qs
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“We found absolute, iron-clad evidence that short-term rental (STR) regulations put downward pressure on rent. Lots of things cause housing to be expensive, but this is low-hanging fruit to manage those costs.” —David Wachsmuth
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For more BSH research on the impact of short-term rentals by BSH co-investigator Dr. Wachsmuth, visit: buff.ly/BJSgKkg
With Canada facing a critical shortage of #affordablehomes, vacancy taxes offer a promising solution.
Our latest blog explores policies from BC, Vancouver, & Toronto that discourage speculation and return empty homes to the rental market.
Read more: buff.ly/sE24NLe
