Our Community Housing Team works with a focus on the non-market side of the housing continuum and along the length of the development process, from assessment and planning to proformance and development approval to design and construction. Our breadth ensures that our planning recognizes the practicalities of development, while our development activities are rooted in an understanding of the issues. Our approach emphasizes deep understanding, collaboration, innovation, and action-orientation no matter the project.

Understanding: Out team brings experience in scoping the challenges, from homeless counts to housing needs assessments, as well as experience working in and with community housing organizations, and government. Our approach brings with it an understanding of the challenges, and also the opportunities.

Collaboration: No one actor can ‘solve’ a housing crisis, and rarely can one actor effectively deliver a piece of the solution alone – deep networks in communities across Western Canada, and strong relationships with local governments, non-profits and social serving organizations, and businesses allow us to bring the right parties around the table to move forward.

Innovation and Action-Orientation: As with everything we do at Urban Matters CCC, our aim is to identify and help to create the vehicles and mechanisms for action, and ultimately improved outcomes for people. In all our Community Housing projects we leverage the collaborative environment we foster, and our cross-sectoral presence, to identify and catalyze innovative solutions – from prototype projects to enduring housing partnerships, to creating the missing partner in a housing ecosystem through Social Enterprise Development – we’re agnostic about form, and fanatical about sustainable impact.

Our projects span housing types, target populations, and the development process – to get a sense of what we’re working on, explore some of our case studies, and brief project descriptions.

what we’re working on