Fixing up housing policy - from research to reality

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Jim Dunn and Cynthia Belaskie, CHEC - Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative Visit website › Government · EN · 25 episodes · latest 2024-07-31

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Housing policy is a mess in Canada. Here's how to fix it: Take all the best housing research, crunch the numbers, and translate that research into reality. This conversation is for researchers, students, and everyone who wants to make housing more affordable for more people. Jim Dunn is the Director of the Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative. Cynthia Belaskie is a managing director at McMaster University. Listen as they talk to experts and explore data-based solutions to our housing crisis. Learn more about the Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative.

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"After a hospital stay, the senior would be evicted" - Sarah Canham

2024-07-31 · 32 min · Episode 16

More and more older Canadians are struggling to stay in their homes. Sarah Canham is the project director for the Aging in the right place partnership. She is a CHEC node leader whose primary focus is housing and…
Julia Christensen - "Where's the communal freezer that stores country food?"

2024-07-24 · 42 min · Episode 15

Born and raise in Yellowknife, Julia Christensen is working to help northern residents take back their housing. For communities across the Canadian North, housing insecurity is an undeniable public policy priority and…
Jim Dunn - "Out of the problem space and into the solution space"

2024-07-17 · 47 min · Episode 14

The tables are turned in this episode. Host Jim Dunn is in the hot seat, interviewed by Damian Collins. Jim talks about his journey to housing research, and his focus on data that leads to solutions to our housing…
Damian Collins - "What motivates me is the human right to housing"

2024-07-10 · 35 min · Episode 13

Dr. Damian Collins believes that if we realize the right to housing for all Canadians, we will be a much more successful, inclusive and equitable society. He also believes that goal is within our reach. Damian is a…
Dr. Catherine Leviten-Reid: We regulate childcare and LTC, why not housing?

2024-07-03 · 42 min · Episode 12

Dr. Catherine Leviten-Reid focuses on affordable housing and vulnerable populations. She is passionate about rural and smaller communities including her home base of Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Alexandra Flynn: housing and justice are completely intertwined

2024-06-26 · 28 min · Episode 11

Alexandra Flynn grew up in isolated northern communities where substandard, overcrowded housing was rampant. She sees housing as a fundamental issue of social justice.
Justin Lewis says we need to look at everything

2023-12-13 · 46 min · Episode 10

Justin Lewis takes a look back at the big thinkers we’ve had as guests this season. As Director of the Housing Secretariat for the City of Hamilton, Justin is a creative thinker finding solutions to the city's homeless…
The 15% solution - Heather Tremain and Options for Homes

2023-12-06 · 36 min · Episode 9

Heather Tremain is the CEO of Options for Homes. The non-profit developer uses an innovative funding model to help people with lower incomes become homeowners. Should this model be used as a tool to solve the housing…
Even the big banks say we need more affordable housing

2023-11-29 · 33 min · Episode 8

Rebekah Young of Scotiabank wrote a report titled "Canadian Housing Affordability Hurts". In it, she says that the government needs to build more non-profit, affordable housing. She talks to Jim Dunn about why…
Why land should be communal property

2023-11-22 · 36 min · Episode 7

Alastair Parvin has a bold idea. The CEO of the UK's Open Systems Lab wants to transform land from an individually owned asset to one owned by the community as a whole. He says this will solve the housing crisis and…

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Owner: Jeff Goodes
Oldest episode in feed: 06/2021 · over 5 years
Typical length: 37 min
Format: Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone

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