Please join me next Wednesday March 11 6 pm in Ottawa at @mayfairtheatre.bsky.social with @ottawaalliance.bsky.social to watch Thinking Beyond The Market, a film about affordable housing solutions for Canada mayfairtheatre.ca/movie/thinki...
Please join me in #oshawa next Monday, March 9 7 pm to talk solutions to Canada’s housing crisis dg.derekgiberson.ca/HousingTownh...
Will the next National Housing Strategy prioritise those most in need? I speak with Brian Crombie youtu.be/dkvRyLnmpJg
What five items would you place in a time capsule?
Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and maybe Mohammed bin Salman, to be opened, carefully, with precautions, in the year 3026.
Thank you!
Coming back to this story, the care economy has been driving the Canadian job market since the pandemic, but especially 2024-2025, despite the clampdown on international study permits.
It's quite something that this sector is not part of the Canada Strong industrial strategy.
In which my hand gestures… go wild as I discuss the need to scale up housing that works.
🎧What broke housing in Canada and how do we fix it?
Jennifer speaks with housing expert @cwhitzman.bsky.social on the policy choices behind today’s crisis and the practical pathways forward, from non-market housing to financing reform.
Out on all platforms + YouTube.
irpp.org/podcast/what...
A woman, Sandra, smiling as she speaks into a mike.
The focus needs to be on maintaining permanent hsg & repair the individual’s social relationships.
Four people on a stage
Shelters can create homelessness but they are seen as the ‘simple’ solution. Sandra Clarkson from Calgary talked about how half+ 900 ppl using their shelter every night had been living there for over 3 months. Cash, creating permanent hsg has led to 3500 successful tenancies.
Michael Lethby from Niagara Region sitting on a chair and speaking into a microphone.
90% of youth in the Niagara program stayed housed. Mike talked about how outreach in small community schools became the basis for keeping kids in families, housing, school & local community.
A poster for the event
At Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa public event on Emergency Shelter Transformation with Calgary Drop In & Niagara Resource Service for Youth, featuring Jennifer McKelvie MP & Catherine Cullen from CBC.
Excellent prescription.
I hope they make it after all.
In which I have much to say about planners as change agents.
It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.
It’s about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
This would be so popular at the national level if centrist Democrats let us use those words in that order
Thanks, @glengower.ca
Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Here's the info for the Ottawa screening! I'm looking forward to this event, especially since @cwhitzman.bsky.social & I will talk housing as part of the Q&A discussion after the film!
The event is free & all are welcome
Three pale males
It’s been a while since I’ve seen an all white male panel like this (not shown: 2 online panelists, 1 moderator - also pale male) but worship of Ed Glaeser is a must as well
High density residential street in downtown Vancouver with 5(!) rows of street trees creating “kissing canopies”.
This is really important.
The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.
What the federal budget means for cities this Thursday noon ET - moderated by @canurb.bsky.social featuring @fcm.ca @thehubcanada.bsky.social & @uoftcities.bsky.social (me) us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Nov. 9: Join Carolyn Whitzman Senior Housing Researcher, for a talk at Koffler Arts about artist Tracey Snelling’s Intergalactic Planetary exhibition and how they both explore the ways that marginalized communities navigate and shape urban spaces https://ow.ly/ucnx50Xl6mB
We'll be discussing @cwhitzman.bsky.social's book Home Truths on November 23rd, 2pm, downtown Kitchener. DM us for the address if you'd like to join this book club!
This is a great article - great visuals & great summary of why we need 4 storey apartments with single egress everywhere in North American cities.
Yikes.
www.environicsinstitute.org/docs/default...
