Por: New Housing Alternatives Grant

New Housing Alternatives is made possible with the support of the New Housing Alternatives grant, led by Alan Walks and Susannah Bunce, based at the University of Toronto, and hosted by Ren Thomas and Cherise Burda. This podcast cuts through the noise on Canada’s housing affordability crisis to spotlight real solutions that already exist, and the people making them happen.

Despite dominant narratives claiming our housing crisis can be solved by simply building more market-rate supply, nearly half of Canadian households can’t afford average rents today. The crisis is deeper than a numbers game; it’s about who we’re building for, who gets left out, and what kind of communities we want to live in.

In this series, we talk to the people doing the work: non-profit and co-operative developers, community organizers, and researchers reimagining housing not as a commodity, but as a human right. These are the underdogs creating affordable homes against the odds, proving it’s possible to build housing for people, not profit.

You’ll hear from:
-Ground-breaking developers creating alternative models of co-ownership and co-ops
-Policy experts who challenge the supply-only narrative
-Economists and data experts unpacking how affordability vanishes, and how to bring it back
-Community leaders who are preserving existing homes and building new ones in ways that centre dignity and access

Whether you're a policymaker, housing advocate, or simply someone trying to make rent, this podcast brings you stories and insights that show a different future is not only possible, it’s already being built.

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