Resources + Publications

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Resources

  • Tap Turners & Game Changers: Lessons for Melbourne, Victoria and Australia from Affordable Housing Systems in Vancouver, Portland, and Toronto

    Carolyn WhitzmanSeptember 2018

    Vancouver has created the most social and affordable housing, both new construction and renewed stock, in the past three years... Although outcomes are not yet meeing the needs of low and moderate income households, they show promise of growing suitable supportive, social, and rental housing to the point where ‘affordable housing for all’ is more than a meaningless slogan.Read More

Publications

  • Homes that Connect Us: Building social connections and community engagement among residents of multi-family rental housing

    Michelle HoarSpring, 2018

    The intent of this report is to highlight inspiring examples of community building in multi-family housing developments of different types. The hope is that insights gleaned from studying these examples stimulate a broader dialogue about opportunities to foster social connectedness in dense typology housing, and influence the sector toward a greater focus on affordability, security of tenure and sociability.Download PDF

  • The Role of Social Investment in Canadian Affordable Housing

    Katrina MayFall 2018

    Diversified funding models enable affordable and inspiring non-market rental homes and places for people to work and play, to be consistently delivered to meet community needs, even in the absence of government funding.Download PDF

  • White Paper: Options for Legal and Tax Structures of Below Market Rental Housing

    Norton Rose Fullbright Canada LLP & Catalyst Community Developments SocietyMarch 2018

    The purpose of this White Paper is to outline the current challenges faced by these charities and non-profits wishing to undertake such development. We also describe possible solutions to these challenges. It is hoped that this White Paper will support charities and non-profits, generate discussion, and prompt consideration of changes to the Income Tax Act (Canada) (the “Act”) to allow such developments to proceed in a less elaborate and more efficient manner. We describe two possible structures for the development of below market rental housing in British Columbia.Download PDF

  • Connecting on Community Redevelopment: Existing Capacity-Building Initiatives in the Community Housing Sector

    Katrina MayFebruary 18, 2020

    Real estate development is a complex undertaking and no two projects or partnerships are alike. The industry-specific skill-sets integral to the process are, however, transferable, and the responsibility for distributing this knowledge has the potential to be shared by all stakeholders. Download PDF

  • Spaces that Connect Us: Key Considerations for Delivering Social Infrastructure

    Jean RoeFebruary 28, 2020

    This report provides a set of Key Considerations for the creation, design and maintenance of activated, welcoming and useful spaces of social infrastructure in new mixed-use developments...for community organizations seeking to redevelop land into mixed- use projects that include social infrastructure. Download PDF