Susannah Bunce
@susannahcb.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Human Geography at University of Toronto Scarborough, Co-Director - New Housing Alternatives Partnership, University of Toronto https://newhousingalternatives.ca
https://housingcommonsresearch.ca
https://housingcommonsresearch.ca
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NHA proudly joins 134 organizations across Ontario in demanding that #Bill60 — what we call the "Create Encampments Faster Act" — is repealed.
Read this co-signed to Premier Ford and demand action from Ford and Ontario's municipalities to protect renters: tinyurl.com/StopBill60
Read this co-signed to Premier Ford and demand action from Ford and Ontario's municipalities to protect renters: tinyurl.com/StopBill60
ND + EJC - Open Letter on Bill 60
Bill 60, the Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act, should be called the “Create Encampments Faster” Act. The legislative changes enshrined in Bill 60 will contribute to an escalating homelessness cr...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
NHA proudly joins 134 organizations across Ontario in demanding that #Bill60 — what we call the "Create Encampments Faster Act" — is repealed.
Read this co-signed to Premier Ford and demand action from Ford and Ontario's municipalities to protect renters: tinyurl.com/StopBill60
Read this co-signed to Premier Ford and demand action from Ford and Ontario's municipalities to protect renters: tinyurl.com/StopBill60
Reposted by Susannah Bunce
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.
www.eventbrite.com/e/reimaginin...
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.
www.eventbrite.com/e/reimaginin...
Reimagining Housing as a Commons
Introducing the Housing Commons Research Centre, a virtual space dedicated to advancing community-led housing in Canada and beyond.
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October 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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.
www.eventbrite.com/e/reimaginin...
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.
www.eventbrite.com/e/reimaginin...
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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:
www.eventbrite.com/e/reimaginin...
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:
www.eventbrite.com/e/reimaginin...
October 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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:
www.eventbrite.com/e/reimaginin...
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:
www.eventbrite.com/e/reimaginin...
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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.
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
It reflects on the history of the West Broadway Community Land Trust, a pioneering CLT in Winnipeg.
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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.
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September 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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.
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
It reflects on the history of the West Broadway Community Land Trust, a pioneering CLT in Winnipeg.
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Reposted by Susannah Bunce
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.
bsh.ubc.ca/a-case-for-c...
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.
bsh.ubc.ca/a-case-for-c...
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...
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September 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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.
bsh.ubc.ca/a-case-for-c...
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.
bsh.ubc.ca/a-case-for-c...
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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
Learn more: www.rooftops.ca/employment
August 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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
Learn more: www.rooftops.ca/employment
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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.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Ricardo Tranjan: Income inequality reached a new high. Here’s why Ottawa’s DOGE-style cuts will only make it worse
The prime minister has gone from Captain Canada to Captain Cuts.
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July 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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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.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
She joins others in applauding the move, but remains skeptical it will meaningfully move the needle for most households struggling with unaffordable rents.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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...
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July 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
She joins others in applauding the move, but remains skeptical it will meaningfully move the needle for most households struggling with unaffordable rents.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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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.
July 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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.
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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.
www.lincolninst.edu/publications...
It features a chapter by NHA partners Dominique Russell (Kensington Market CLT) & Sue Bunce (UofT), which explores the growth of CLTs across Canada.
www.lincolninst.edu/publications...
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...
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May 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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.
www.lincolninst.edu/publications...
It features a chapter by NHA partners Dominique Russell (Kensington Market CLT) & Sue Bunce (UofT), which explores the growth of CLTs across Canada.
www.lincolninst.edu/publications...
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
February 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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
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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.
engagement-canada-pledge.ca
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.
engagement-canada-pledge.ca
Pledge for Canada | Engagement pour le Canada
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January 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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.
engagement-canada-pledge.ca
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.
engagement-canada-pledge.ca
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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. ❤️
January 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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. ❤️
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A new policy report series on Community Land Trusts in Canada. Just launched.
A new policy report series on Community Land Trusts in Canada. Just launched.
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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December 3, 2024 at 3:36 AM
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A new policy report series on Community Land Trusts in Canada. Just launched.
A new policy report series on Community Land Trusts in Canada. Just launched.