Susannah Bunce

Reimagining Housing as a Commons Introducing the Housing Commons Research Centre, a virtual space dedicated to advancing community-led housing in Canada and beyond.

Join us 7pm next Friday, Oct 17 at U of T!

This public panel considers how to build the movement for community-led housing across Canada.

It also launches NHA's Housing Commons Research Centre, a new interactive platform for housing researchers & practitioners.

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Event poster for the Housing Commons Research Centre (HCRC) Launch Panel. The background features soft, earth-toned gradients with abstract housing silhouettes. Text reads: “Towards a New Commons: Introducing the Housing Commons Research Centre.” Join us for a panel discussion exploring housing as a shared responsibility and collective right. Friday, October 17, 2025 | 7:00–9:00 PM | In-person at the New Housing Alternatives Annual Workshop. Featuring: Chiyi Tam (Toronto Chinatown Community Land Trust), Norm Leech (Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House & Downtown Eastside CLT), Jesse Upton Crowe & Babie (Encampment Support & Mutual Aid Advocates), and Courtney Lockhart (Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada). Hosted by Dr. Susannah Bunce and Nat Pace, co-leads of the HCRC. Logos for the Housing Commons Research Centre (HCRC) and New Housing Alternatives appear at the bottom.

What if housing was treated as a shared responsibility, not a commodity?

We’re launching the Housing Commons Research Centre (HCRC) with a public panel on Oct 17 exploring housing as a commons, featuring leaders from Canada’s alternative housing movement.

RSVP:
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Looking back at the West Broadway Community Land Trust - CCPA This research looks back at the West Broadway Community Land Trust in Winnipeg to learn lessons for the future.

Check out this great new report by @policyalternatives.ca (CCPA).

It reflects on the history of the West Broadway Community Land Trust, a pioneering CLT in Winnipeg.

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A Case for Community Land Trusts in Canada: A Summary of Promising Community Practices and Public Policy Options BSH's report, A Case for Community Land Trusts in Canada, not only outlines key the benefits of CLTs, but offers policy recommendations to structurally shift the housing market towards a more affordab...

Across Canada, more & more neighbourhoods are launching Community Land Trusts.

45 CLTs now exist, with almost 2/3s launched since 2019.

"A Case for CLTs in Canada" explains how this model creates permanently affordable homes, and calls for large scale investment.
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Opportunity Alert! Rooftops Canada is recruiting two Technical Advisors (Housing & Human Rights) for a two-week assignment in Uganda, Sept 22–Oct 3, 2025.

Learn more: www.rooftops.ca/employment

Making housing affordable isn’t just about reducing prices. It’s also about raising incomes.

On both fronts, we're going the wrong way fast.

Across 🇨🇦, “the income gap between wealthy & low-income households has reached a record high" finds NHA's Ricardo Tranjan.

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Toronto needs more housing. Are garden suites a potential solution? | CBC News The City of Toronto is hoping new measures to cut design costs and speed up permit approval times for laneway and garden suites may encourage homeowners to build more, but some advocates and experts s...

Sue Bunce, NHA’s Co-Director, speaks with CBC about Toronto’s move to make building garden suites easier.

She joins others in applauding the move, but remains skeptical it will meaningfully move the needle for most households struggling with unaffordable rents.

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Cover of a report titled "International Commentaries on Preserving Affordable Homeownership: Public Partnerships with Community Land Trusts." The text "EDITED BY JOHN EMMEUS DAVIS" appears in an orange box at the bottom. The background image shows a small modern wooden building with a flat roof and large vertical windows, situated in a residential neighborhood with traditional white houses with brown roofs. Two people stand smiling in front of the wooden building, surrounded by trees and a gravel yard. Hilly countryside and a partly cloudy sky are visible in the distance.

The Lincoln Institute recently published a collection of six global commentaries reflecting on the "Preserving Affordable Homeownership" Policy Focus Report we published in partnership with the International Center for Community Land Trusts in 2024.

International Commentaries on Preserving Affordable Homeownership - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy This collection of six global commentaries reflects on the Preserving Affordable Homeownership Policy Focus Report published by the Lincoln Institute in partnership with the International Center for C...

Check out Lincoln Institute of Land Policy's new report on the global Community Land Trust movement.

It features a chapter by NHA partners Dominique Russell (Kensington Market CLT) & Sue Bunce (UofT), which explores the growth of CLTs across Canada.

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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

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Are land trusts the future of Canadian housing? As Canadian housing costs surge, more communities are turning to land trusts to take their space back

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Today Trump has declared economic war on Canada. A war of attrition to force us to become part of the United States. It will never happen lol Help us to stand up to this bully by buying Canadian products 🇨🇦 and boycott US goods

Today we launched the Pledge for Canada.
We have voices from across the political, cultural, labour, Indigenous spectrum.
We are building a movement to maintain pressure on our leaders not to sell out our nation or our values.
Please sign and join the movement.
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Wishing everyone everywhere peace and inspiration. Come what may, let us stand strong for all that is right and just. Let us defend those who are being mistreated, and live with kindness and respect as Martin Luther King hoped we would . Our task is clear. ❤️

New Insights into Canadian Community Land Trusts: A Research Paper Series  | Balanced Supply of Housing The Balanced Supply of Housing Research Node, in partnership with the Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts (CNCLT), is excited to announce the release of foundational research papers on Canadian ...

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A new policy report series on Community Land Trusts in Canada. Just launched.