Events

At Housing Central, Dr. Alexandra Flynn and Dr. Craig Jones discussed how new advancements in technology could help address housing challenges with greater precision and shape a more equitable housing landscape.

Dr. Alexandra Flynn will discuss the right of all  Canadians to housing in the context  of our current housing crisis. We need millions of homes to properly house everyone. We also need protections to make sure our affordable housing stock doesn’t go away. Flynn will explain exactly what kinds of housing are needed and where, both nationally and on the Sunshine Coast, and will offer practical solutions to make sure Canada’s right to housing has real teeth.

Join us for a guided tour through the brand new BC HNR Calculator, a free, fully automated, complaint housing needs report from HART.

In this session we introduce HART’s Housing Accelerator Tool. The Tool seeks to provide evidence-based scenario modelling to maximize the quantum and quality of affordable non-market housing on government and non-profit land. HART is developing a public-facing, web-based tool to demonstrate the impact of policy decisions on housing costs in three core areas: land, financing, and design/construction. The Tool will identify feasible, evidence-based strategies to reduce or eliminate obstacles to use of public and non-profit land for non-market housing.

Toolbox+ by Cahdco is preparing our next monthly webinar on Needs Assessment. We excited to share that we will be interviewing Andrew Rigsby, Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART)’s Data Access and Engagement Manager. We will discuss the best practices, experiences, and anecdotes about needs assessments.

Public land has become a lightning rod in the housing conversation in Canada. With millions of units to build, and rising costs of land, construction, and labour, why aren’t we using land that is already in the public trust? In this panel, experts will discuss what public land exists, how we currently use it, and what’s stopping us from leveraging this resource to it’s full extent. 

The Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART) project has completed and published a set of innovative public, equity- focused tools to improve the quality of housing supply decision-making. This groundbreaking work simplifies needs assessments, land assessment and acquisitions strategies for communities of all sizes and geographies. In this session, join our researchers in conversation with non-profits to learn how you can use the tools for your projects and advocacy, how they’ve already impacted work in governments and non- profits across Canada, and what other tools we’re developing for the sector.

Recently, local governments in BC have started adopting inclusionary housing policies requiring a certain proportion of affordable or non-market housing units in new developments. Often these units must be owned or managed by non-profits. As a relatively new tool, there is a need to share lessons learned and develop best practices. Metro Vancouver is assessing inclusionary housing practices, and identifying success factors to ensure the effective delivery of affordable housing for local governments, developers, and non-profit operators. This session will engage participants around their experiences and needs, and explore the possibility of developing policy models for inclusionary housing in BC.

Join the HART team at the 2023 Canadian Open Data Summit in Victoria, Canada on November 24th, 2023. The summit will bring together open data advocates, practitioners, and users focused on the themes of open data, digital futures, AI, actionable data for equity, inclusion, and diversity, and open energy.