BSH TeamAdam Mongrain

Adam Mongrain

Executive Director, Vivre en Ville

Adam is Housing policy director at Vivre en Ville, a public interest non-profit organization advocating for sustainable land use and thriving communities. Vivre en Ville has established itself as an innovative and indispensable broker for local governments, developers and community stakeholders in Quebec, and is increasingly looked to as a promising model across Canada. Over the past years, Adam and his team have documented barriers to housing affordability in densely built environments, and ways to reframe the problem in cultural and political rather than urbanistic terms.

Adam’s team is researching the disconnect between median prices and median incomes in the housing market and looking into ways to improve neighborhood quality without provoking exclusionary price increases. Vivre en Ville’s report “PORTES OUVERTES” identifies four core problems and sixteen practical solutions for a sustainable end to the housing crisis.

Vivre en Ville also manages a pilot project for public and rental registries, with demonstrations currently being available in Québec and Ontario.

Adam was part of the Housing and Climate Task Force, authors of the Blueprint for More and Better Housing.