Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART)

An award-winning research group that works toward evidence and data-based solutions to Canada’s housing crisis.

[Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART) @ubcHART]

The BCPLM integrates DASH readiness metrics: slope, hazard risk, zoning, regulatory complexity. Visible upfront. Scoping work happens on sites with a real chance.

June 30: https://t.co/VUpEvlhWuj #housing (2/2)

[Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART) @ubcHART]

Most BC non-profit housing providers have had this experience: months of scoping a site, only to find it's not viable. Wrong zoning; slope; environmental constraints; a regulatory layer nobody flagged. (1/2)

[Balanced Supply of Housing @BSHNode]

Hey Vancouver housing sector!

See you tonight at @UBCRobsonSquare for Thinking Beyond the Market—a free screening and panel with film director @bmdoucet, @hogans_alley's Djaka Blais, @ubcHART's Dr. Craig Jones & @andreareimer.

Register at: https://t.co/PtfhOLFhtM

[Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART) @ubcHART]

Why doesn't BC already have a map of its public land?

It does, in pieces. Scattered across systems that don't talk to each other. The BCPLM stitches them together.

June 30: https://t.co/VUpEvlhWuj

#bcpoli #housing

[Balanced Supply of Housing @BSHNode]

Happening Monday!

Join us at @UBC Robson Square for a free screening of Thinking Beyond the Market & panel with film director @bmdoucet, @hogans_alley's Djaka Blais, @ubcHART's Dr. Craig Jones & @andreareimer.

🗓️More details and registration at: https://t.co/hqN8k0TbQy

[Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART) @ubcHART]

Mandate a public land inventory. Centralize land coordination. Bind affordability into land dispositions. Strengthen intergovernmental partnerships. Read it: https://t.co/qDwluBan1J #bcpoli #housing (2/2)

[Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART) @ubcHART]

New report: a comprehensive review of the laws, policies and systems governing public land use in BC, plus 6 low- or no-cost actions that could unlock major non-profit and affordable housing on government-owned land. (1/2)

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Ontario has the largest social housing waitlist in the country. The province cut Toronto's shelter funding by 80% since 2024. Encampments are a housing problem, not a legal one. https://t.co/ffdEwO3TAJ #onpoli #housing

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Ontario court rules clearing a Kitchener encampment would violate residents' Charter rights. Premier Ford calls it "the most ridiculous ruling I've ever seen."
Underfunding and restricting affordable and supportive housing for decades is ridiculous.

[Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART) @ubcHART]

@cityoftoronto Mapping other provinces and territories is possible, it just requires data infrastructure and transparency to make it happen.
https://t.co/s2xYn35qYp

[Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART) @ubcHART]

Pleased to see the @CityofToronto displaying open data on public land within Transit-Oriented Development areas. Now imagine expanding that map to include all public land (not just city-owned within TOA), everywhere in Ontario.
https://t.co/WuCaseLqfn

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The BCPLM evaluates every public parcel against proximity to amenities. Tuesday June 30: https://t.co/VUpEvlhWuj #bcpoli #housing (2/2)

[Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART) @ubcHART]

A vacant parcel isn't automatically a good site for housing. Walkability, transit, schools, clinics: these are what determine whether residents can actually live there well. (1/2)

[Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART) @ubcHART]

Public land data in BC sits in dozens of fragmented systems. The BC Public Lands Map fixes that.

Launching Tuesday June 30, 10am PT / 1pm ET: https://t.co/VUpEvlhWuj

#bcpoli #housing (2/2)

[Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART) @ubcHART]

The cost of land can account for up to 60% of a new building's total price.

Using public land for housing pulls that cost out of the equation. But governments can't act on land they can't see. (1/2)

[Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART) @ubcHART]

Federal. Provincial. Regional. Municipal. School boards. Health authorities. TransLink.

BC's public land is owned by dozens of entities. The BCPLM puts them on one map.

June 30: https://t.co/VUpEvlhWuj

#housing

[Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART) @ubcHART]

Save the date: June 30, 10am PT / 1pm ET.

We're launching the BC Public Lands Map: a map of every piece of publicly-owned land in BC, assessed for housing potential.

Register: https://t.co/VUpEvlhWuj

#bcpoli #housing

[Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART) @ubcHART]

HART has been featured in @UBCMagazine's "Future of Housing" edition, highlighting the innovative research happening @UBC, including our upcoming Public Lands Map, modular construction, and sustainability.

Read more: https://t.co/13ykEbf2bn

#housing #research

[Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART) @ubcHART]

🎥We're hosting a screening of Thinking Beyond the Market — Brian Doucet's doc on what genuinely affordable housing looks like in Canada.
Followed by a panel discussion including the filmmaker.

Mon June 1, 6–9pm. UBC Robson Square. Free.
Register here: https://t.co/GIcVAVi71k

[Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART) @ubcHART]

Have you received your #Census yet? If you care about housing affordability, the best source of data for policymakers to understand how housing affordability actually looks for Canadians is the Census, so look for it in your mailbox today!