➡️ Join the Advocate on April 14 at a webinar hosted by the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association where the authors @cwhitzman.bsky.social and Alexandra Flynn will discuss their work. Register here: chra-achru.ca/a-rights-bas... ---- (5/5)

Join us for an engaging discussion on shaping the next National #Housing Strategy, and how it can keep human rights in mind. 📅 April 14, 2026 ⏰ 12:00–1:30 PM EDT Learn more and register here 👇 chra-achru.ca/a-rights-bas... #RightToHousing #cdnpoli #HumanRights

Face eating leopard is starting to find face eating so BORING

Please join legal scholar Alexandra Flynn & I as we lay out a rights-based approach to the next National Housing Strategy April 14 at noon ET chra-achru.ca/a-rights-bas...

I love seeing a well worn copy of my book Home Truths!

Build Canada Homes is the appetizer. What will happen with the next National Housing Strategy - will ir decrease homessness and housing need in a way that the previous NHS didn’t? - that’s the main course. www.ipolitics.ca/2026/03/20/b...

An amazing member of ours put together this graphic that really encapsulates perfectly the situation on Bank Street. There is only so much space available, and we must use it as efficiently as possible. Parking isn't that. Please sign up to delegate on March 30th in favour of bus lanes!

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.

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...

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

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

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...

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

Bravo. Toronto - and Canada - need this. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...

Toronto recently allowed more 6 storey apartments on Major Streets but what would it take to make "courtyard" apartment blocks? * 4-6 storey permissions on adjacent streets * front yard setbacks of 2 m or less * single stair and European elevator standards * modest garbage room in the basement

The solutions proposed for New Zealand's (and virtually every other country's) problems are always like: "We need to make people work for more years" "We have to cut back on services, I'm sorry, there is just no other way" "We have to cut benefits for young people" never: "We need to tax the rich"

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This is why we need bus lands on Bank Street. We don’t need extensive consultations or debates or both side-ism to find a “balance;” we need bold action, bold leadership to design public space in the public interest and just do it. @strongtownsottawa.ca

The underlying assumptions of 4 competing federal housing need assessments betray different visions of ‘housing 4all’. Featuring my rights-based work for @housinglogement.bsky.social spacing.ca/vancouver/20...

@cwhitzman.bsky.social co-authored this report, funded by Maytree, as the culmination of a project working with non-market developers to find a model that Build Canada Homes could employ to unlock affordability in innovative, scalable, sustainable ways schoolofcities.utoro...

For those of you who missed the CUI/Maytree Citytalk last week on scaling up government-built housing with @tylermeredith.bsky.social & Graeme Hussey, the recording is up! citytalkcanada.ca/discussions/...

CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while worker pay is up just 26%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Great episode, as always. Canada would be well-advised to accommodate EU elevators codes (and other elements of the building code). Especially in today’s age where we are looking to diversify trade relations and tying ourselves exclusively to the US market has become particularly problematic.

Single-stair stacked-flats, next to the park. 33' lots. Each floor plate is 24' x 56' and can have one "family size" 3Br flat, or two small units.

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

If you're interested in how the Canadian federal government can build affordable housing at scale now, please join us next Thursday, September 25 at noon ET for a great webinar: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The often ignored word ‘universal’ is key to human rights www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c31f2f5...

TODAY: How nonmarket developers and providers can work together more effectively in a portfolio approach - register to watch live or receive a link to the recording! schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/bundling-ass...:

The approach - govt land for nonmarket hsg, definition of affordability, designated funds to address homelessness thru supportive hsg, including acquisition of apts, supporting construction innovation - is right. Now we need targets, timelines, action. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...