2020 Successful Projects
A Home in a Neighbourhood Where I Belong
This Solutions Lab connects stakeholders from different sectors with people
with disabilities and their families. Participants identify challenges to
building inclusive housing. They share their knowledge and co-create and test
solutions for creating inclusive, affordable housing.
Nunavut Condominium Corporation Insurance Solutions Lab
This Solutions Lab works with our partners to identify and engage key
stakeholders exploring relevant issues and challenges with denied or expensive
building insurance. It also identifies and prototypes potential solutions to
this problem. The goal is to prevent loss of the structures and continue to
house vulnerable populations.
Affordable Housing for Social Inclusion
The objective of this Solutions Lab is to create innovative, inclusive housing
options for individuals with developmental disabilities nationwide. Through a
collaborative process, potential solutions will be piloted. A key tool to be
built is a detailed journey/experience map of the process for developing new
housing that could embed the principles of "reverse inclusion".
Creating Home Together: Supporting Women+ Through Housing Transitions
This Solutions Lab creates a roadmap on solutions to remove barriers to
shelters and other services in the homelessness and violence against women
sectors. Women and transgender people with lived expertise and nationwide
partners will participate in workshops. The ideas and materials generated will
help to develop adaptable housing and support solutions.
Housing Journeys Reimagined: Toward a Supportive Affordable Homeownership
Opportunity
The Solutions Lab aims to introduce a new supportive, affordable ownership
model that can help end chronic homelessness and generational poverty. The
replication of this model across Canada would help decrease chronic
homelessness by increasing options for affordable, stable housing. This
approach could also reduce returns to homelessness by developing a wealth- and
equity-generating opportunity for individuals experiencing homelessness.
Housing through an Autism Lens: A Pathway from Crisis to Solutions
The Solutions Lab develops a pathway to independent and affordable living for
autistic adults. It includes an integrated set of flexible housing-related
supports and services (based on functional ability and the spectrum of Autism
Spectrum Disorder or ASD needs). It also proposes actual brick and mortar
solutions.
Building with Mission
This Solutions Lab tries to reduce pressures on hospitals and long-term care
homes by determining and addressing the causes. The key is to impact social
determinants of health and creating housing based on local needs. The goal is
to create a collaborative playbook by documenting insights and learnings to
develop affordable and supportive housing campuses.
Developing easy-to-use community decision-making tools to help achieve
National Housing Strategy Goals
This Solutions lab opens the perceived black box of housing data to be easily
used by decision makers. This project will be completed through a series of
online workshops. The result will be a better understanding of the initial
problems that will allow us to provide and support evidence-based consensus on
solutions. It will also help teams to assess end-results for accountability,
and identify further innovative opportunities.
2019 Successful Projects
Fundamentally integrating environmental performance into affordable housing
solutions
The Solutions Lab will examine how to integrate environmental performance into
the economic model of housing projects in order to enhance the long-term
livability and viability of affordable housing.
Medicine Hat Systems Transformation Solutions Lab
The Solutions Lab will examine how to co-design a Systems Transformation
Initiative that results in an integrated prevention, homelessness, housing,
corrections, and health systems design and transformation process.
Balanced Housing Lab
The Solutions Lab will examine the emerging housing issues facing
middle-income earners to be able to live and work within the City of North
Vancouver, Squamish Nation, and District of West Vancouver.
Indigenous Housing Solutions Lab
The Solutions Lab will examine solutions to answer the question: What if we
could co-create Indigenous homes to be sources of health, wealth and
connection in tune with culture and the environment?
Open arms across community: cross-sectoral, culturally appropriate
strategies to support women’s + transition from homelessness to safe,
stable housing
The Solutions Lab will examine cross-sectoral, culturally appropriate,
person-centered responses to housing needs and experiences of homelessness for
women+. This includes women and people of marginalized gender identities
(herein: “women+”) experiencing homelessness – including
women+ and children fleeing violence.
Skookum Lab: Urban Housing Solutions for Indigenous Youth and
Families
The Solutions Lab will be one of the first Indigenous-led, social innovation
labs in Canada. Skookum Lab utilizes an Indigenous driven and Indigenous led
methodology that incorporates Indigenous ways of knowing and being throughout.
Social wellbeing in modular housing: co-creating designs to nurture health
and social support for vulnerable people
The Solutions Lab will examine modular housing as a promising rapid response
to homelessness.
Indigenous Housing and Home-Lands Solutions Labs
The Solutions Lab will examine the economic development and employment
opportunity related to a growing Indigenous population with legally recognized
territorial assets and capital, and a need for housing.
Community Housing in Nunavut: New Approaches for Affordable, Appropriate
Indigenous Housing Development
The Solutions Lab will examine the question: How can we seed and strengthen
the community-housing sector’s participation in housing development and
management in Nunavut?
Developing a model to leverage retail-level investments to finance
affordable housing partnership for refugees
The Solutions Lab will examine the need for a replicable local investment
option that is suitable for retail-level investors and is capable of financing
the development of additional affordable housing for refugees and other
vulnerable groups.
Enabling Citizen-Led Housing: New Models for Seniors’ Housing Design
and Development
The Solutions Lab seeks to engage seniors in co-designing a set of planning
approaches and processes to enable a more balanced framework for the
development of seniors’ housing between citizens, community
organizations, and the private sector.
Let’s Talk… Home and Community
The Solutions Lab will examine the Question: How might we promote social and
economic inclusion through a housing model with individuals with developmental
disabilities and newcomers to Canada by leveraging existing community assets
and hosting conversations for each group to co-design “good
community”?
From Prison to Homelessness: Ending a Perilous Trajectory
The Solutions Lab will examine how we can help increase the availability and
access to suitable housing for Canadians who leave the prison system, while
also providing opportunities for offenders to gain employment skills training
to improve their opportunities of finding meaningful employment.
Seniors and Inter-generational Purpose-Driven Housing Solutions
The Solutions Lab will examine purpose driven housing solutions that
facilitate social inclusion, education and community collaboration for seniors
and newcomers.
Affordable Housing Hackathon Solutions Lab
The Solutions Lab will examine new and practical solutions to the construction
of more affordable housing stock by removing barriers and opening new paths
for innovation in planning, construction and regulation so that private
industry and the not-for-profit industry can meet the needs of the community.
Community Studios
The Solutions Lab will examine the creation of a new model of supportive and
shared modular housing.
Affordable housing and sustainable development, two compatible
ideas
The Solutions Lab will examine the need for an innovative approach to address
affordability issues related to sustainable community development.
Housing Financialization (Directed Solutions Lab)
In partnership with the Social Innovation Institute, this directed Solutions
Lab will explore the financialization of housing.
2018 Successful Projects
Affordable Housing Renewal
The Solutions Lab will develop net zero or net-zero ready retrofit design
options and prototype 4 to 6 low-rise wood-frame multi-unit residential
buildings.
Wealth and the Problem of Inequity Across Generations
(Directed Solutions Lab)
In partnership with Generation Squeeze, this directed Solutions Lab will
examine issues related to housing affordability, wealth and inequality.
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