Mar 24, 2021 | Community, Housing, Our Team
Meet Peer-Daniel, the newest member of the Urban Matters team. Peer-Daniel will be part of the community housing team working on housing & homelessness research, needs assessments, affordable housing policies and programs, and development consulting. He is driven...
Mar 5, 2021 | Affordable Housing, Community, Housing, Social Innovation
YWCA Metro Vancouver Launches a Housing Solutions Lab to Tackle Barriers to Building More Deeply Affordable Housing for Single Parents In early 2020, YWCA Metro Vancouver reached out to Urban Matters with a persistent and difficult challenge: how to sustainably fund...
Nov 6, 2020 | Accessibility, Community, Immigration, Our Team
Urban Matters is delighted to welcome Talia Ahmad to our team as our Social Health and Well-Being Analyst. Talia is a dedicated community organizer who brings a social justice lens to policy analysis. She’s also a skilled community researcher, adept at navigating...
Oct 22, 2020 | Community, Community-Building, Social Innovation
In Urban Matters’ second Covid webinar, BC and Alberta leaders in the field share experiences, insights and ways forward in the wake of the pandemic. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, local governments and their partners in the community-serving sector were faced with...
Oct 16, 2020 | Our Team, Social Innovation, Solutions Labs
Urban Matters recently welcomed Brent Wellsch to our team as our Solutions Lab Lead. A systemic designer and strategist, Brent comes to UM from the Government of Alberta, where he helped to establish the Alberta CoLab, one of Canada’s first public-sector innovation...
