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Skyrocketing costs and a growing shortage of housing is making it impossible for the people that power our cities - nurses, teachers, retail and restaurant staff, tradespeople, transit operators, municipal workers, young families, and many more - to stay.

Your mission - should you choose to accept it - is to join a growing cadre of corporate, nonprofit, government and community leaders, and residents like you, determined to restore affordability to our region.

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Field Intel

Progress and Possibilities for Housing Our Workers: Voices from the Field

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Turning workforce housing ideas into real projects takes strong partnerships, practical financing, and committed leadership.

In this webinar, Angela Bishop, Chief Executive Officer of the Housing Trust of Nova Scotia, and Mukhtar Latif, Co-founder of Crosswalk Communities, share lessons from workforce housing projects they have delivered or are currently advancing. Through real-world examples, they discuss how organizations can navigate risk, build collaborative partnerships, secure financing, and move housing for essential and middle-income workers from concept to completion.

Moderated by Surranna Sandy, Chief Executive Officer of CivicAction, the conversation offers practical insights and replicable strategies to help ensure the people who power our communities can afford to live in them.

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CivicAction acknowledges that the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area is situated upon traditional and current Indigenous territories that include the Wendat, Haudenosaunee, Anishnaabeg, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation. We believe in the spirit of the “Dish with one spoon” concept – that land can be shared to the mutual benefit of all its inhabitants.

Today, the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area is still home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island (North America) and we recognize the historical oppression and inequalities that they continue to face.

We also recognize the non-settlers and the dis-planted, such as people of African descent who were brought here forcibly and enslaved and who continue to face oppression and inequality on land that is not their own.

Depending on our ancestry, we each have different relationships to the land on which we live. In our role as a civic convener, and in the spirit of reconciliation, CivicAction is committed to rebuilding and renewing respectful relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, we support Indigenous sovereignty and we support the recommendations of The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.

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