Housing For All: A Series of Events on the Future of Public Housing was hosted by the Future of Public Housing Project in May of 2015. As part of the series, the project hosted an opening keynote address and panel discussion, an Academic Workshop with international housing experts, a 4-day public art exhibition at the Interurban Gallery, and a community dialogue scenario-building workshop. The results of this series of events is below:
THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC HOUSING SCENARIOS
October 2015
Future of Public Housing Scenarios
Developed from the Housing for All Community Dialogue with local and international housing stakeholders in May 2015
EXPLORING CANADA’S HOUSING FUTURES
September 2015
PROCEEDINGS FROM HOUSING FOR ALL INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC WORKSHOP
May 21-23, 2015 at UBC
Session 1: Trends, Past & Future
- The Future of Public Housing: Backwards to Look Forward
Professor Penelope Gurstein, School of Community & Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada - The Future of Social Housing in Post-socialist Europe: Lost in Transition
Professor Sasha Tsenkova, Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada - The Past, Present and Future of Public Housing in Israel
Professor Emily Silverman, Department of Geography, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Session 2: Transformations
- How Has Public Housing been Transformed: European Experience
Professor Christine Whitehead, Economics, London School of Economics, London, UK - The Multiple Transformations of Public Housing in Singapore
Professor Belinda Yuen, Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology & Design, Singapore - After the Projects: Explaining Variation in Approaches to Public Housing Transformation in the U.S.
Professor Lawrence Vale, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, Cambridge, USA
Session 3: Equity & Inclusion
- Mixed-Income Development Approaches to Public Housing
Professor Mark Joseph, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA - Brazil: towards equitable cities
Anaclaudia Rossbach, Cities Alliance, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Habitation Denied: Why is Public Housing Always in the Cross-Hairs?
Professor Nathaneal Lauster, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Session 4: Housing in Canada
- Addressing the Ultimate Housing Problem: The Reluctant Rise and Early Fall of Public Housing in Canada
Professor David Hulchanski, Department of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada - Getting it right on the second try? Case study of redevelopment of Toronto’s Regent Park public housing
Professor Laura Johnson, School of Planning, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada - Community Destruction and the Future of Social Housing in BC: The Little Mountain Housing Project 2007 to 2015
David Vaisbord, Independent Media Artist & Educator, Vancouver, Canada
Session 5: Allies for Public Housing
- Imaging Public Housing: The Influence of popular media on perceptions of public housing
Professor Sherry McKay, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada - The Role of Non-profits in meeting the Public Housing Challenge in the U.S.
Professor Rachel Bratt, Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University, Medford, USA