Current Insights
Why Canada needs a non-market rental acquisition strategy. May 2020
By Steve Pomeroy The challenge: Canada is losing affordable housing faster than we can create it The erosion of “naturally occurring affordable housing” (NOAH) units is the most serious threat to Canada's supply of affordable housing. Between 2011 and 2016 the number...
Steve at the Australian National Housing Conference, Darwin NT, Aug 30, 2019
Steve participated with colleagues from Ireland and New Zealand in the closing plenary of Australia's annual Housing conference to examine international experience in building and implementing national housing strategies. A copy of the 15 minute presentation is...
New research report describing the evolution of the social housing ecosystem in BC and Quebec
This research was undertaken in collaboration with Allan Gaudreault and Nicholas Gazzard, for the Canadian Housing Policy Roundtable (CHPR). It describes the key elements of the evolving institutional infrastructure in each province and how this has enabled the design...
What will 2019 hold for Canada’s affordable housing sector?
In a case of ‘be careful what you ask for,’ Canada’s National Housing Strategy (NHS) delivered on what advocates had been clamouring for – the re-engagement of the federal government in housing and longer-term predictable funding in order to build and stimulate an...
Video interviews February 2018
At the ONPHA Leadership Series February, 2018, Steve discusses opportunities in the National Housing Strategy and provides some insights on sector modernization