Webinars
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May 14, 2024Webinar: Research in Progress on Indigenous Land Policy
The Balanced Supply of Housing presents a Research in Progress webinar on Indigenous Land Policy. Presentations from the Strategic Relations Director of Indigenous Housing provider, AHMA, and researchers from the University of British Columbia cover Urban Indigenous Housing and First…
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April 10, 2024Webinar: Research in Progress on CLTs
Speakers:Dominique Russell, CNCLTMeagan Auger, Peter A. Allard School of Law, UBCMaggie Low, School of Community and Regional Planning, UBC
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March 12, 2024Webinar: Community Partnership Building to meet outcomes of Progressive Realization of the Right to Housing
Speaker: Cheryll Case, is the Founder and Executive Director of CP Planning, a Toronto-based non-profit organization defining the practice of a human rights-based approach to urban planning. This includes the co-design and implementation of neighbourhood, city, and nation-wide planning…
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February 28, 2024Webinar: Filling the Gaps: Evictions and Government Policy in Vancouver During COVID-19
Speakers: Alina McKay:Alina McKay is the Research Manager for the Balanced Supply of Housing.Dimitri PanouDimitri Panou is a Research Assistant at Toronto Metropolitan University. He currently works with Dr. Nemoy Lewis to explore the impacts of financialization on rental housing for…
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July 6, 2023Webinar: Overcoming Institutional Barriers to Non-market housing
Speakers: Adam Mongrain: Adam Mongrain is a project manager and affordable housing activist. Before joining Vivre en Ville on housing issues, he was director of MonLoyer, an NPO dedicated to the creation of a public register of residential leases. Defender of densification and…
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May 30, 2023Webinar: Evictions - Understanding Evictions in Canada
Speakers: Silas Xeurub Silas is a Researcher interested in economic inequality and using data to understand all dimensions of inequality in Canada. He has Master’s degrees in Economics from the Paris School of Economics and the University of British Columbia, where he began working with…
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April 20, 2023Webinar: The 'Missing Middle'
Speakers: Conrad Speckert (he/him) Conrad is an intern architect at LGA Architectural Partners in Toronto with degrees from McGill University and the University of Waterloo. His thesis project proposed a building code change to allow for single stair residential buildings up to six…
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April 4, 2023Webinar: Filling the Gaps: The Effects of Housing and Income Policy on Evictions During the Pandemic
Speakers: Meryem Belkadi, PhD Candidate, School of Community and Regional Planning, UBC Sean Grisdale, PhD Candidate, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto Alan Walks, Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto Alexandra Flynn,…
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March 1, 2023Webinar: National Occupancy Standards and Women’s Housing
Speakers: Alina McKay is a Ph.D. researcher and the research coordinator for the Housing Research Collaborative (HRC) and Balanced Supply of Housing (BSH). Her current research with the BC Society of Transition Houses explores National Occupancy Standards and their impact on women who have…
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March 1, 2023Webinar: The Housing Policy Database
Speaker: Leila Ghaffari holds a joint PhD in urban studies from the University of Quebec in Montreal and in urban planning from the University of Tours. Her doctoral thesis corresponds to the effects of gentrification and its acceptability by the local populations, in a comparative perspective…