We welcome Dr. Ren Thomas, who is an associate professor in the School of Planning at Dalhousie University. She’s an urban planner, and her research uses the qualitative powers of case studies to explore housing, transportation, and policy planning. She’s a Founding Fellow of the MacEachen Institute of Public Policy and Governance and the Academic Director on the Canadian Institute of Planners Board of Directors. Her experience from coast to coast earns her the perspective and insight to challenge our deep-rooted beliefs on housing.

We’ll be discussing her article: Housing as a Collective Investment Versus a Means to Individual Wealth, written as part of a collection of papers entitled: Housing for People, Not for Profit: Models of Community-Led Housing by Dr. Lisa Bates, published in the Journal of Planning Theory and Practice.

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Music: Ryan Kinnear, Reid Cai, and Becca Mayers