The Reel Flicks project engaged a group of 10 youth living in Lawrence Heights to shed light on their experiences living in a social housing community in Toronto. Filmed from their point of view, the young participants focused on topics ranging from gun and gang violence to a profile on an aspiring Olympic athlete.

Planning for the future in social housing is difficult; however, utilizing practical software programs that forecast the future by mapping out needs and funding availability can make the task easier.

How do you retrofit post-war homes into net zero energy homes? See how Windsor Essex Community Housing Corporation successfully turned 5 bungalows into energy-saving properties.

What can you do to maximize your experience and get the most out of a training session? Here are some tips to help you prepare for your future training sessions.

50,000 is the number of ‘green’ jobs that is frequently used as the anticipated outcome from implementing Ontario’s Green Energy Act (GEA). Given the economic gloom and doom, any province would be happy with that kind of growth. So I thought it might be a good idea to see where that number comes from and if it is, in fact, an accurate prediction.

Across Ontario there are 405,000 low-income families eligible for the Canada Learning Bond. Families with incomes under $41,000 a year and children born after 2004 could take advantage of the easy to access $2,000 nest egg for their child’s higher education.

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Dr. James Dunn, an internationally renowned scientist who specializes in the health impacts of housing and neighbourhood interventions, is studying the health impacts on residents through Toronto’s Regent Park Social Housing Redevelopment Project. With only six studies done like this in the last 100 years, this unique research project merits much attention by those working in the housing sector.

Natural disasters appear to becoming an increasingly more common occurrence. What do these events and their related costs mean to you as a housing provider?

It’s been a productive day: You re-lamped the fixtures in both stairwells and the laundry room, replaced a broken lens cover, re-ballasted four fixtures in the office and common room, and switched-out one receptacle that has been heating up and giving its users problems. It’s now time to go home. Or is it?