The National Housing Strategy signals an intention to invest in and collaborate with, diverse providers and models to foster a sustainable community housing system.
Work Highlights
- Community Housing Typologies. We documented the landscape of community housing and presented case studies of a variety of housing providers across Canada. This work provides an open access ‘standard’ for use in characterizing housing providers.
- Approaches to supporting community housing residents. We are conducting an original examination of anti-racism policies/strategies in community housing – an issue that is important, in part, because of the role of racism in homelessness.
- Resident well-being in cooperatives. We investigated the ability of, and need for, community housing to promote resident wellbeing, by applying the Canadian Index of Wellbeing to a study of cooperative housing.
- Contributing to the knowledge of community housing models. We have presented at a variety of related research initiatives, contributing to Community Housing Canada’s scholarly interventions on housing vulnerability.
Research Team
Dr Schiff’s research investigates marginalised communities’ health and social issues across diverse urban, rural, and remote geographies, including the determinants of community wellbeing, social service systems, and social aspects of sustainability.
Dr. Baker’s research focuses on policies and practices related to homelessness, housing, social security, and drug treatment.
Dr Dunn is an expert in the relationship between neighbourhoods, housing and health. His work investigates the impact of housing and neighbourhood interventions on healthy child development.
Larry’s research areas include: homeownership, social rental housing, mortgage securitisation, office development, the institutional evolution of listed property trusts, finance capital and entrepreneurial urban governance.
Graduate Students
John Kojo Menlah
John is interested in topics related to housing, social determinants of health and health systems.
Under the supervision of Dr Schiff, Ashley supports the research activities of Area 4. Dr Schiff’s research investigates community health and social issues for marginalized communities across diverse urban, rural, and remote geographies. This includes a focus on determinants of community wellbeing, social service systems, and social aspects of sustainability, with an emphasis on community-engaged methodologies, community co-generation of knowledge, and integrated knowledge translation.
Khater Muhajir | Lakehead University
Areas of research interest: Health equity, refugee health and housing, population health, Indigenous and Northern Health.
Khater Muhajir is currently working as a research assistant with the department of health science at Lakehead university under the supervision of Dr. Schiff. He graduated with a BASc in Public Health from Wilfred Laurier in 2020 and is in his first year of the Master of Health Sciences Program at Lakehead.
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