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]

@CMHC_ca Thanks to @ahma_bc, @bchousing, @bcnpha, @chf_bc, @BrightsideHomes, @MetroVancouver, and the Province of BC's Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs.

Launch: Tuesday June 30, 10am PT / 1pm ET. https://t.co/VUpEvlhWuj (2/2)

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The BC Public Lands Map is funded by @cmhc_ca through the National Housing Strategy's Demonstrations Initiative.

It's been shaped by our advisory committee of housing partners across BC. (1/2)

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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)

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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

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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

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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)

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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.

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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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

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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

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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