Empowering Community-Led Housing Through Research

The Housing Commons Research Centre will be an online platform for research, collaboration, and knowledge sharing on community-led housing. We are a part of New Housing Alternatives. Subscribe below to be the first to know when we go live and announce webinars.

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Mission/Mandate

The Housing Commons Research Centre (HCRC) is a new virtual centre, housed at the University of Toronto, for Canadian and international research exploration and knowledge sharing focused on diverse forms of not-for-profit community-led housing, such as co-operatives, community land trusts, eco-villages, co-housing, and co-living.

HCRC centres the lived experiences of individuals and communities experiencing housing precarity and supports community-led housing grounded in social and environmental justice aims. HCRC works with academic and community partner collaborators to promote existing and new community-led housing stewardship practices, co-create new community-led housing knowledge, and develop new community-led housing research networks.


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The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada funds our Partnership. Grant #895-2024-1007