What part does design play in the acceptance of affordable housing in communities? Find out that and much more on this week's podcast as we are joined by Rebecca Siggner, Manager of Research at BC Housing.

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This week on the pod we are joined by Alan Mulawshyn, the Deputy Executive Director of Veteran’s House Canada, about the impactful work he and his team are doing so support veterans in need of housing and wrap around supports in the Ottawa area. He shares his journey into this work, insights into veteran’s experiencing homelessness, and how Veteran’s House Canada has continued to grow to meet the growing needs of Canada’s veterans.

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Libraries play an important role in community development, including supporting people experiencing homelessness. This week we are joined by Sarah Tarcea from the North Vancouver Library, to talk about the work they are doing to create access and support for Vancouver’s most vulnerable

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This week we talk to Tyler Meredith, a policy expert who helped to craft the 2019 and 2021 election platforms for the Liberal party. We talk about his journey into policy work, some of the work he is most proud of in his time in government, what needs to be done to move us forward out of this housing crisis, and a unique policy solution both he and Alan Broadbent put together that would be both cost effective and impactful in creating new deeply affordable housing

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Listen in this week on the podcast, as we are joined by the brilliant Keir MacDonald, CEO of Coast Mental Health. He helps us to debunk some of the stigmas around mental health, why it’s so important to have supportive and affordable housing options for people exiting healthcare or treatment, and what has to change in order for us to make serious progress in ending homelessness moving forward

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Housing veteran Keith Gowans, CEO of Aloft Housing joins us on the pod to chat about the innovative housing solutions him and his team at Aloft have come up with, that provide an affordable, convenient and speedy way to create the housing Canadians desperately need.

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In May 2023, researcher Nick Flavo and General Manager of the Canadian Chartered Institute of Housing, Mary Clarke organized a study tour of Housing professionals and individuals from policing in New York City, to explore programs and work being done around housing and preventing and ending homelessness. They join us to talk about the tour and the learnings from their time in NYC, as well as where future study tours might take place.

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This week on the podcast we talked to lived expert, Al Wiebe, who shares his story of going from earning a six figure salary to living on the streets, the lessons he learned, and how he’s since taken that experience forward to change things for the better through his radio show, training police officers and healthcare professionals, and through many conversations with politicians and housing professionals

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We need tangible solutions to end the homelessness and housing crisis in Canada, and the recently released National Housing Accord is just that. Today I’m joined by Tim Richter, CEO of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness and Michael Moffat Chief Executive at REALPAC to talk about how the accord came together, what it’s all about, their hopes for the future and how we all can support the accord moving forward

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This week on the pod we have Frank Berube from CMHC a on to chat with us about the new Housing Accelerator Fund. We’ll chat about how it came about and what the hopes are for it moving forward. Take a listen!

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