Nov 30, 2018 | BC’s Affordable Housing Conference, Housing, Housing Central, Social Enterprise, Social Venture Development
What does it take to bring innovative housing ideas together to imagine the future of community housing in Canada?
Nov 14, 2018 | Accessibility, Community, Social Innovation, Social Venture Development, Universal Access Design
City of Lethbridge Creating New Masterplan for Inclusive Design It was an unusual sight: Lethbridge city officials and consultants wandering around outside city hall, some blindfolded and holding canes, some in wheelchairs, all struggling. A local reporter who just...
May 6, 2018 | case study, case study: community housing, Uncategorized
From the Federal government’s recently released National Housing Strategy to Alberta’s Provincial Affordable Strategy there’s reason to be hopeful about enhancing the affordable housing inventory in Alberta. With such an emphasis on the building of new affordable...
Mar 5, 2018 | Affordable Housing, Homelessness, Housing, Indigenous Communities, Matt Thomson
The BC Provincial Government recently released the 2018 Budget and announced a robust commitment to make life more affordable for British Columbians. We asked Matt Thomson, Urban Matters’ Community Housing Lead for his thoughts on the B.C. Government’s 30-Point...
Mar 1, 2018 | Social Enterprise, Social Finance
Program-Related Investments is the third post in our series about social finance tools. Urban Matters’ Social Finance Lead, Jerome Lengkeek, explores Program-Related Investments (PRIs), how social entrepreneurs, non-profit organizations and charities can...
