Fixing up housing policy - from research to reality Jim Dunn and Cynthia Belaskie, CHEC - Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative

Justin Lewis takes a look back at the big thinkers we’ve had as guests this season. As Director of the Housing Secretariat for the City of Hamilton, Justin is a creative thinker finding solutions to the city's homeless crisis. He's also a friend of the pod: CHEC Director Jim Dunn and Executive Advisor Steve Pomeroy were the academic thought leaders and part of the core team who developed the City of Hamilton’s Housing Sustainability and Investment Roadmap.

Heather Tremain is the CEO of Options for Homes. The non-profit developer uses an innovative funding model to help people with lower incomes become homeowners. Should this model be used as a tool to solve the housing crisis?

Rebekah Young of Scotiabank wrote a report titled "Canadian Housing Affordability Hurts". In it, she says that the government needs to build more non-profit, affordable housing. She talks to Jim Dunn about why non-profit housing is good for business.

Alastair Parvin has a bold idea. The CEO of the UK's Open Systems Lab wants to transform land from an individually owned asset to one owned by the community as a whole. He says this will solve the housing crisis and many of our other social challenges.

Leilani Farha talks about what it means to declare housing a human right and what we must do to live up to that commitment.

Hosts Jim Dunn and Cynthia Belaskie are back. This season features big thinkers sharing their visionary ideas on how to fix our housing crisis. First episode is dropping Wednesday!