Building Social Innovation Into Housing Challenges
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...Converging Crises and Silver Linings: The Housing Crisis, COVID-19 and Municipal Housing Responses
Urban Matters hosts first in webinar series in response to Covid-19 With the outbreak of the coronavirus, British Columbia’s housing crisis was thrust into the spotlight: communities scrambled to find safe ways to shelter the homeless. Tenants — many of whom already...2019 REFRAME HOUSING COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED
Two years ago, we launched the Reframe Housing Competition (Reframe). The competition is designed to increase innovative affordable housing options. Cross-sectoral applicants from across Western Canada and the Territories pitch their most creative housing innovations...Jodee Ng – Urban Matters’ new Community Housing Analyst
Jodee Ng joined Urban Matters earlier this spring and is based in Surrey, BC.
Urban Matters CCC President joins the Central Okanagan Journey Home Society’s inaugural board of directors
“As part of a company that is deeply invested in the wellbeing of communities across the country, I see this role as an opportunity to share my learnings as I continue to learn.”
2018 Reframe Housing Competition Winners Announced
What does it take to bring innovative housing ideas together to imagine the future of community housing in Canada?
Jen Casorso – Committed Kamloops based community change agent is Urban Matter’s new Community Well-Being Consultant
Jen Casorso – a much loved Social and Community Planner from Kamloops, is broadening her reach and joining the Canada wide team of Urban Matters. Walking down the street with Jen through Kamloops you quickly get a picture of the incredible depth and breadth of...Nobody Left Behind
How the City of Grand Forks is turning a one-in-200-year flooding event into an opportunity for long-term housing solutions for their community. In early May, many residents of the City of Grand Forks and neighbouring areas of the Regional District of...Lee Prevost – New Affordable Housing Development Lead
No – that’s not a typo in Lee’s job title. This is Lee’s big dream – that we drop the ‘affordable’ term and value all types of housing as important elements of healthy and inclusive communities. He wants housing developments to focus on cutting edge...
Budget 2018 – Our Response to the BC Government’s 30 Point Plan for Affordable Housing
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...Startup Weekend Okanagan – Bring Your Ideas for Affordable Housing
Join us at Techstars Startup Weekend Okanagan, March 9-11, 2018, pitch your idea for affordable housing and win an incubation package!