There’s a hopeful new sign that how we build our cities, and specifically, how good a job we do of building mixed income neighborhoods tha...

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New Masters of Community Planning Program at @VIUniversity approved by the province! The first cohort is planned for September 2015. Pls RT...

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. @1sidewalkballet I agree with Ned Jacobs that demand-side subsidies (the person) are often better than supply-side subsidies (the bldg) ...

DAVID WITTY There continue to be a number of national and international initiatives focusing upon the well-being of urban citizens and ur...

In an interview with the CBC yesterday, Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia (ISS of BC) director Chris Friesen announced that...

We have had a few container homes in Canada but this is definitely the most recent. 12 Containers are being utilised to form social housi...

From socialinnovation.ca : The Centre for Social Innovation is a social enterprise with a mission to catalyze social innovation in Toronto ...

Right now, Imouto House looks like a stack of shipping containers that somebody took a cutting torch to. That’s because it is exactly that...

The original Katrina Cottage: Hurricane Katrina’s scrappy li’l legacy . A s soon as the destructive path of Hurricane Sandy became evide...

Photograph by:  NEWS photo , Mike Wakefield Should local government be in the social housing business? As the City of North Va...

This is the closest approximation I have ever found to Jane Jacobs' Hudson Street of the 1950s, replete with a character Jacobs herself ...

If you’re one of the 80 per cent of Canadians who lives in a city, chances are you’re fiercely proud of it. Our cities can match any in the...

Jim is a community developer, housing activist, co-founder of the Portland Hotel Society and a Gastown resident since 1972. In 2003, he spe...

Social Housing should be part of the regional system, incorporated into neighbourhood planning from the outset.   —  Lewis N. Villegas,  Th...

Pilot Project That Tackles Homelessness is Saving Money, Too - The Globe and Mail HEATHER SCOFFIELD Toronto— The Canadian Press Published ...

On Monday, the new Vancouver City Council was sworn in, and in his inaugural address, the Mayor focussed on his goal to create affordable ho...

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