This year’s Summit, our most participatory yet, welcomed over 80 leaders from the GTHA. Developers, government and philanthropic leaders, and community organizers alike.
Findings from the workshop are being used to inform next step strategies. Thank you to all who volunteered to provide feedback before our report back later this year! We look forward to sharing more information at the next workshop and report back. In the interim we have prepared a high level summary, linked below.
From our 2024 Roadmap efforts, we’ve learned this: community already has the workforce to build a better Canada- Canada just needs to fund them. Grassroots planners, non-profit developers, and social innovators are already advancing inclusive redevelopment, yet face stark funding deficits.
Participant feedback at the Resident Summit is helping to chart the pathway to decent work, fair wages, and ethical jobs in the Equitable Land Use Planning Economy.
We are proud of another successful year.
- 100% reported they made a new connection to someone that can support them in their organizing efforts
- 100% reported they would recommend this event to a friend/colleague
- 95% reported that the information shared today was helpful and useful to them in their organizing efforts
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2024
The 2024 Resident Summit was held at the Centre for Social Innovation on May 27, 2024, bringing together over 60 community organizers, non-profit leaders, and housing advocates to share knowledge and begin ecosystem mapping to strengthen solutions for affordable housing and anti-displacement efforts.
Objectives:
- Gather community residents, organizations, and leaders from across Ontario cities with recent major investments in transit.
- Showcase successful housing strategies and how they can be replicated and scaled •
- Advance ecosystem mapping, to build a community strategy to secure short and long term wins
Highlights
- Fireside Chat: Featuring Mercedes Zayas Sharpe (former community planner, PARC) on cross-sectoral collaboration for equitable housing.
- Voices of Progress Panel: featured leaders Kumsa Baker (TCBN), Anna-Kay Brown (Jane/Finch Community and Family Centre), Dr. Menna Agha (Carleton University), and Mohammed Shalalfeh (Hamilton Community Benefits Network) sharing success stories in affordable housing policy and partnership advancement.
- Financing Affordable Housing Panel: explored funding strategies with Garth Brown (resident, housing advocate), S. Mwarigha (WoodGreen), Krystal Valencia (Rental Rescue), and moderator Matti Siemiatycki (University of Toronto).
- Community Action Plan Workshop: Identified power matrix of key stakeholder groups and organizations named and evaluated by attendees. The Workshop's results highlight the critical role of funding and financial partnerships in advancing affordable housing.
Your Next Step Directions to Us
- CP Planning will expand capacity-building for community-led housing, advocate for stronger government policy alignment, develop cross-sectoral financial partnerships, engage high-power industry leaders, and enhance participatory planning for the 2025 Resident Summit to drive sustainable and equitable housing solutions.
We are in deep gratitude to our Event Sponsor Rally Assets for supporting the 2024 Resident Summit. Rally Assets helps investors use capital for positive social and environmental impact - they are experts in impact investing.
We are also in deep gratitude to leaders Kumsa Baker (TCBN), Candice Zhang (Ontario Non-profit Network), and Alix Aylen (Infrastrcuture Institute) who helped in the design and implementation of the Community Action Plan Workshop.
2023
The 2023 Resident Summit, was hosted in CP Planning's office in Little Jamaica, Toronto, on April 26, 2023. The Summit brought together over 40 community residents, non-profit leaders, and government officials from across Toronto, Peel, Hamilton, and Ottawa to address pressing housing issues and develop actionable solutions.
Discussions focused on:
- Gathering feedback on the emergent strategies in the recently laucnhed Roadmap for Redevelopment Plans to Confront Systemic Racism
- Attendees sharing knowledge and stories on their successes, and opportunities to replicate wins
Highlights
- Open forum discussion included words of wisdom shared by invited guests Adam Vaughan (former MP and City Councilor), Kumsa Baker (TCBN), Hannia Cheng (Toronto Chinatown Land Trust), Katie King (Hamilton Community Benefits Network), Erella Ganon (Build a Better Bloor Dufferin) and more
- Dotmocracy activity identified that the ongoing displacement, lack of affordable housing supply, and limited staff capacity were the top barriers experienced by communities working to protect and increase affordable housing supply.
Your Next Step Directions to Us
- Prioritize addressing funding gaps to fuel grassroots housing initiatives
- Support knowledge building on securing wins through planning processes and government engagementIncreased government engagement
- Get a bigger venue for the 2024 Summit
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