At 10 AM PT/1 PM ET on February 25, the Balanced Supply of Housing will host a Research in Progress webinar with Drs. Colin Phillips, Adjunct Professor at UBC’s School of Social Work, Alina McKay, Research Manager at the Housing Research Collaborative and Balanced Supply of Housing, and Jeremy Wildeman, Adjunct Professor at Carleton University and Fellow at the Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) (University of Ottawa) on accessible housing needs in Canada. This webinar will highlight new findings from BSH’s recent Accessible Housing Survey related to the impact of tenure, lack of choice, and inflexible housing systems and dive into new research that investigates the critical gap between the promises of Canada’s National Housing Strategy (NHS) and the lived reality of people with disabilities in Canada.
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Register on ZoomThis research is connected to BSH’s Accessible Housing Needs in Canada research. To learn more about our work, visit our research project page.
About the Speakers
Dr. Alina McKay (she/her) is a housing researcher and the Research Manager for the Housing Research Collaborative and Balanced Supply of Housing at UBC’s Peter Allard School of Law. She completed her Masters in Sociology, and PhD in Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the links between housing security and wellbeing. In her role as the Research Manager for the Balanced Supply of Housing, she helps coordinate collaboration between the Balanced Supply of Housing’s academic and community-based researchers.
Dr. Colin Phillips (he/him) is a policy professional and educator who has spent his career finding solutions to the homelessness and housing insecurity that the most marginalized in society experience. Colin is particularly interested in the affordability and financialization of rental housing, advancing the right to housing, and harm reduction and drug policy reform. A Registered Social Worker in BC, he operates Rowan Tree Solutions, where he provides critical research and strategic advice around housing and other issues that are central to economic and social justice.
Colin has been a social work educator for almost a decade and is currently adjunct faculty in the Schools of Social Work at the University of British Columbia.
Dr. Jeremy Wildeman, Ph.D., (he/him) is a political economist whose research focuses on housing precarity, inequality, and the right to housing in Canada. He is the Principal Investigator on an SSHRC-RGDI-funded study examining the right to housing for people with disabilities, and a Co-Investigator on major SSHRC Partnership Grants including New Housing Alternatives and A Safe and Affordable Place to Call Home. His work combines critical policy analysis with applied research to advance more accessible, rights-based housing systems.
