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SUMMARY:Loyal to the Soil: Eco-villages and Eco-communities in Canada
DESCRIPTION:A conversation with practitioners exploring collective land-based living\, climate resilience\, and the barriers facing eco-villages in Canada. \nRSVP on Eventbrite \nThis conversation looks beyond idealism to examine the legal\, cultural\, and structural barriers to climate-conscious collective living. \nCommunities across the country are searching for ways to address housing affordability and climate change together. Loyal to the Soil brings together practitioners from ecovillages and ecocommunities representing different regions to explore how collective\, land-based living can support both climate resilience and social equity\, and why these models remain the exception rather than the norm. \nWhat We’ll Explore\n• Housing affordability and climate resilience\n• Collective land stewardship and ecovillages\n• Rural\, agricultural\, and urban contexts across Canada\n• Structural barriers to land-based living\n• Governance\, intentional community\, and shared housing models \nJoin the Conversation\nThis HCRC webinar invites planners\, researchers\, organizers\, and community members into a grounded conversation about housing\, climate resilience\, and collective land stewardship in Canada. \nRSVP on Eventbrite \nSpeakers\nKillick Ecovillage Co-operative — Wendy Reid Fairhurst\nWendy Reid Fairhurst is a founding member of Killick Ecovillage Co-operative\, a 57-acre regenerative farm and planned 51-unit mixed-income cohousing community near St. John’s\, Newfoundland and Labrador. The project is adapting the Mutual Home Ownership Society (MHOS) model to make rural ecovillage living more accessible. She also helps lead Reclaim Community CDO\, sharing tools and lessons from the project to support community-led housing initiatives across Canada. \nBiblioterre — Rob Cole\nRob Cole is chair of the agroecological co-op Biblioterre and treasurer of Habitation Biblioterre\, a housing co-operative near Wakefield\, Québec on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnabeg. His work connects affordable housing\, agroecology\, and collective land stewardship through farming\, reforestation\, and community projects. Outside the co-op\, he works locally as an arborist. \nJunction Village Community Land Trust — Mary-Kate Craig\nMary-Kate Craig (she/her) is a community catalyst\, researcher\, and co-founder of Junction Village Community Land Trust in Guelph\, Ontario. Her work focuses on housing transformation\, land stewardship\, and regenerative futures. Through Junction Village\, she is helping to develop an urban intentional community grounded in shared spaces\, collective governance\, and long-term land stewardship.
URL:https://housingcommonsresearch.ca/event/loyal-to-the-soil-collective-land-living/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:HCRC Student Circle – March 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Student Circle is a low-key\, online space to exchange ideas and share what you’re working on. It’s a chance to connect with like-minded learners across disciplines. \nThe Housing Commons Research Centre Student Circle welcomes undergraduate and graduate students\, post-docs\, and lifelong learners who are curious about community-led housing. \nEach session is informal: you can share your work\, listen in\, ask questions\, or join to meet others exploring similar topics. Whether you’re deep in a project or just beginning to think about housing futures\, you’re welcome. \nLearn\, reflect\, and build community with us on the third Tuesday of each month. \nSave the date! Reserve a spot here when announced.
URL:https://housingcommonsresearch.ca/event/student-circle-mar-2026/
CATEGORIES:Student Circle
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SUMMARY:Held Together: Research on Community Land Trusts Around the World | Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Watch Recording \nAround the world\, communities are pushing back against housing systems that treat homes as financial assets rather than places to live. From Canada to the UK and Brazil\, Community Land Trusts are emerging as strategies for care\, resistance\, and possibility. \nHeld Together: Research Perspectives on Community Land Trusts Around the World brings together researchers and practitioners from Canada\, the UK\, and Brazil to explore how Community Land Trusts (CLTs) are helping keep housing affordable\, land protected\, and communities intact. \nThis 90-minute conversation asks a simple but powerful question: what changes when housing is something we hold together\, rather than something to be bought\, sold\, and exploited? \nAs global housing markets grow increasingly speculative\, the impacts are felt close to home: rising rents\, displacement\, and the slow erosion of community life. Yet across different regions and political contexts\, communities are organizing collective responses that put long-term care\, stewardship\, and belonging at the centre. \nThis webinar brings together perspectives from: \n\nIndigenous-led planning on the west coast of Canada\nBlack-led community housing movements in the UK\nCLT initiatives from Brazil responding to financialized urban development\n\nTogether\, our speakers will explore how Community Land Trusts function not just as policy tools\, but as living infrastructure: models that protect land from speculation and support housing as a shared social good. \nDesigned for researchers\, students\, housing practitioners\, organizers\, and policymakers\, this conversation balances critical research with grounded\, real-world experience. Expect a thoughtful\, accessible discussion that looks beyond Western silos and invites learning across borders. \nJoin us on February 26. Register today on Eventbrite. \nReserve Your Spot \n  \nSpeakers\nMaggie Low is an Assistant Professor in the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia and Co-Chair of the Indigenous Community Planning concentration. Of mixed European and Indigenous ancestry and a status member of Wikwemikoong Unceded Territory\, she is a community-engaged scholar whose work advances Indigenous sovereignty at the nation and community level\, particularly through planning and negotiated agreements. Her research and teaching focus on Indigenous planning\, Indigenous community land trusts\, Indigenous-state relations\, and reconciliation in Canadian cities. \nTarcyla Fidalgo is a lawyer and urban planner with a PhD in Urban Planning. She leads the CLT Global South Initiative at the International Center for Community Land Trusts (ICCLT) and coordinates the Favela CLT Project in Brazil\, and is a researcher at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her work centres on land rights\, housing justice\, and community-led responses to financialized urban development. \nClaude Hendrickson is a housing advocate and founding member of the Community Self-Build Agency (CSBA)\, a non-profit established in 2000 to promote self-build housing for people in housing need\, including those on low incomes and young people priced out of the market. A long-standing champion of BME community-led housing\, he served as CSBA’s Northern Development Director and was commissioned by Leeds City Council in 2016 to 2017 to develop a 10-year strategy on self-build\, custom build\, and community-led housing. That work directly led to the creation of Leeds Community Homes\, an enabling hub supporting community-led housebuilding across the city.
URL:https://housingcommonsresearch.ca/event/held-together-clts-around-the-world/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:HCRC Student Circle – February 2026
DESCRIPTION:Save the date! Reserve a spot here when announced. \nAbout the Student Circle\nThe Student Circle is a low-key\, online space to exchange ideas and share what you’re working on. It’s a chance to connect with like-minded learners across disciplines. \nThe Housing Commons Research Centre Student Circle welcomes undergraduate and graduate students\, post-docs\, and lifelong learners who are curious about community-led housing. \nEach session is informal: you can share your work\, listen in\, ask questions\, or join to meet others exploring similar topics. Whether you’re deep in a project or just beginning to think about housing futures\, you’re welcome. \nLearn\, reflect\, and build community with us on the third Tuesday of each month.
URL:https://housingcommonsresearch.ca/event/student-circle-feb-2026/
CATEGORIES:Student Circle
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SUMMARY:Webinar - Exchanging Futures: International Perspectives on Housing Commons
DESCRIPTION:The Housing Commons Research Centre\, an initiative of the New Housing Alternatives Partnership (NHA)\, invites NHA partners and guests to a virtual webinar that brings together community-led housing movements from Canada and Uganda. \nFormat: Zoom \nRegister on Eventbrite \n\n \n \nHousing struggles are often framed as local or national crises\, but community-led housing movements around the world have long been developing collective responses grounded in care\, land stewardship\, and shared governance. \nExchanging Futures: International Perspectives on Housing Commons brings together partners from Canada and Uganda participating in an international knowledge exchange program facilitated by Rooftops Canada. Rooftops Canada is the executing agency for the Women’s Spaces Project (2022–2027)\, in partnership with the Government of Canada. The project involves significant knowledge sharing and co-learning activities with Canadian and international housing sector professionals. \nCentering the experiences of women-led housing initiatives\, this webinar explores how community-based housing practices are shaped by history\, culture\, and place\, and how international partnerships can support learning beyond Western and Eurocentric models. \nThe conversation will foreground work emerging from Uganda through the Women’s Spaces Project\, with reflections from Canadian partners engaged in reciprocal learning and collaboration. Together\, panelists will discuss: \n\nHow women-led and community-based housing movements secure land\, housing\, and livelihoods;\nWhat international knowledge exchange looks like in practice\, including its possibilities and challenges;\nHow housing commons models can support both personal and collective liberation; and\nWhy looking beyond familiar Western frameworks is necessary for building equitable housing futures.\n\nIntroductory remarks contextualizing Rooftops Canada and the Women’s Spaces Project will be offered by Genevieve Drouin and Efemena Ozouga\, followed by a panel discussion featuring Dorothy Baziwe\, Dr. Peter Kasaija\, and Alia Abaya. \nThis webinar is part of the Housing Commons Research Centre (HCRC) Webinar Series\, which brings researchers\, practitioners\, organizers\, and students into conversation around community-led housing strategies across contexts. \nSpeaker Bios\nGenevieve Drouin (Rooftops Canada)\nAs CEO of Rooftops Canada\, Genevieve brings experience in cooperative housing\, sustainable cities\, and inclusive human settlements across Africa\, Latin America\, the Caribbean\, and Canada. Rooftops Canada is the executing agency for the Women’s Spaces Project (2022–2027)\, which supports gender-responsive land rights and community-led housing in Angola\, Kenya\, South Africa\, and Uganda. \nEfemena Ozouga (Rooftops Canada)\nEfemena is a leader with over a decade of experience advancing human rights\, gender equity\, inclusive governance\, and housing justice. A lawyer by training\, she bridges legal frameworks\, strategic partnerships\, and community-driven approaches to foster transformative and equitable systems. She is currently Program Manager at Rooftops Canada\, with a focus on land and housing rights and feminist programming. \nDorothy Baziwe (Shelter and Settlements Alternative\, Uganda)\nDorothy is Executive Director of Shelter and Settlements Alternative (SSA). A social worker by profession\, she has worked in Uganda’s human settlements sector since 2012\, engaging in housing development\, advocacy\, policy engagement\, research\, and collaboration to improve service delivery for vulnerable households. \nDr. Peter Kasaija (Urban Action Lab\, Makerere University\, Kampala)\nPeter has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience in urban development and environmental change. His research interests include urban informality\, housing\, inequality\, poverty\, climate change adaptation\, and inclusive governance and planning. He has engaged in numerous international academic and research partnerships. \nAlia Abaya (Circle Community Land Trust\, Toronto)\nAlia is CEO of Circle Community Land Trust\, where she is building a city-wide nonprofit housing provider. Her work integrates community development\, social finance\, sustainability\, and cross-sector partnerships\, including stewardship of over 600 family homes and a $72M capital repair program to protect affordability in perpetuity.
URL:https://housingcommonsresearch.ca/event/exchanging-futures-housing-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:HCRC Student Circle – December 16\, 2025
DESCRIPTION:Please RSVP for our online Student Circle\, taking place from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM EST. \n \nYou’ll receive a confirmation email with details on how to join once you register. \nAbout the Student Circle\nThe Student Circle is a low-key\, online space to exchange ideas and share what you’re working on. It’s a chance to connect with like-minded learners across disciplines. \nThe Housing Commons Research Centre Student Circle welcomes undergraduate and graduate students\, post-docs\, and lifelong learners who are curious about community-led housing. \nEach session is informal: you can share your work\, listen in\, ask questions\, or join to meet others exploring similar topics. Whether you’re deep in a project or just beginning to think about housing futures\, you’re welcome. \nLearn\, reflect\, and build community with us on the third Tuesday of each month.
URL:https://housingcommonsresearch.ca/event/student-circle-dec-2025/
CATEGORIES:Student Circle
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SUMMARY:True to this\, not new to this: Land Stewardship\, Mutual Aid\, and Freedom-Making
DESCRIPTION:Webinar Recording  \nThe inaugural Housing Commons Research Centre webinar\, True to This\, Not New to This\, grounds our ongoing discussion series in historical context. Rather than treating community-led housing and collective land models as new innovations\, this session reframes them as part of a long lineage of collective survival and self-determination. \nFrom Reconstruction-era freedom colonies and land banking networks to 20th-century co-ops\, community land trusts\, and encampment organizing today\, these practices demonstrate that mutual aid\, shared ownership\, and collective stewardship are not theoretical ideals; they are living traditions of care\, resilience\, and resistance. \nSam Carter-Shamai:\nUrban planner\, researcher\, and artist whose work revolves around land\, memory\, and Black community-building. His HERE Project examines Reconstruction-era collective land banking systems in Gloucester County\, Virginia\, uncovering strategies of mutual aid\, stewardship\, and autonomy\, and connecting them to today’s community land trust and commons-based housing models. Sam’s practice spans public space design\, archival storytelling\, and community-engaged research\, with a focus on how histories of landholding shape contemporary movements for housing justice and collective ownership. \nDarold Cuba:\nFounder of MarronageOrg (Director) and Oxbridge Africas (OA)\, is an intellectual historian of political thought whose interdisciplinary work explores post-emancipation marronage\, specifically US freedom colonies and the concept of “landed Blackness” – autonomous Black communities formed to resist systemic racism and institutional white supremacy. Through research and storytelling\, Darold highlights community autonomy and historical resilience\, linking the legacies of maroon communities across the African diaspora and long traditions of land-based mutual aid to contemporary movements for land and housing justice. \nPlease subscribe for updates and like and repost our announcement in Instagram\, LinkedIn\, or Bluesky.
URL:https://housingcommonsresearch.ca/event/community-led-housing-roots/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Housing as a Commons: A Public Panel at the University of Toronto
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, October 17\, for an evening of dialogue and reflection on housing as a commons in Canada. \nThe event is from 7–9 pm at the University of Toronto’s Multifaith Centre (Room KP208\, 569 Spadina Crescent)\, a modern\, luminous space. Doors open at 6:30 pm. \nEvent Recap and Gratitude\nEvent Description\nWhat if housing were treated as a shared responsibility\, not a commodity? \nThe Housing Commons Research Centre (HCRC) is a new platform connecting researchers\, organizers\, and practitioners advancing community-led housing across Canada. \nJoin us for a public launch event and panel discussion featuring change makers from co-ops\, community land trusts\, and grassroots mutual aid networks. Together\, we’ll explore how the commons can serve as a framework for solidarity\, care\, and collective ownership\, and imagine what housing justice can look like when shaped by communities themselves. \nThe Housing Commons Research Centre is a practice-oriented output of New Housing Alternatives\, a research partnership that unites academic researchers\, housing agencies\, and community organizations across Canada to transform Canada’s housing system by promoting and amplifying equitable community-led solutions. \nPanel Speakers\n\nChiyi Tam\, Toronto Chinatown Land Trust\nCourtney Lockhart\, Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada\nJesse Upton Crowe and Babie\, Encampment Support Network Parkdale\nNorm Leech\, Downtown East Side Community Land Trust and Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House\n\nCo-moderated by: Nat Pace\, Susannah Bunce\, and Sam Carter-Shamai. \n \nPlease Subscribe & Share\n\nSubscribe to our announcements by email.\nPlease like and repost our announcement in Instagram\, LinkedIn\, or Bluesky.
URL:https://housingcommonsresearch.ca/event/housing-as-a-commons/
LOCATION:Multi-Faith Centre\, 569 Spadina Cres\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 1C7\, Canada
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