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Carolyn Whitzman

@cwhitzman.bsky.social
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Senior housing researcher, University of Toronto School of Cities. Author, “Clara at the Door with a Revolver”(2023), “Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis” ( 2024).

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
LBJ's Humpday Podcast Picks for June 24th This week dives into better streets, broken housing markets, and the hidden costs of car dependence. h/t @streetfilms.bsky.social @nyc-dot.bsky.social @cwhitzman.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social @ianloader.bsky.social medium.com/@lanrickbenn...
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LBJ’s Humpday Podcast Picks

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
SHARE—Shareholder Association for Research and Education has finalized the 'Responsible Investment in Housing Disclosure Framework' via @cwhitzman.bsky.social share.ca/our-impacts/...
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Our Impact - Investors and Affordable Housing
Housing affordability is a crisis exacerbating economic inequality in Canada. SHARE is bringing together investors to address the risks of housing investments associated with evictions and tenant disp...
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Office of the Federal Housing Advocate @housinglogement.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
➡️ Join the Advocate on April 14 at a webinar hosted by the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association where the authors @cwhitzman.bsky.social and Alexandra Flynn will discuss their work. Register here: chra-achru.ca/a-rights-bas... ---- (5/5)
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A Rights-Based Approach to the Next National Housing Strategy - Canadian Housing & Renewal Association
Home » Webinars » A Rights-Based Approach to the Next National Housing Strategy A Rights-Based Approach to the Next National Housing Strategy April 14,
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Office of the Federal Housing Advocate @housinglogement.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Join us for an engaging discussion on shaping the next National #Housing Strategy, and how it can keep human rights in mind. 📅 April 14, 2026 ⏰ 12:00–1:30 PM EDT Learn more and register here 👇 chra-achru.ca/a-rights-bas... #RightToHousing #cdnpoli #HumanRights
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A Rights-Based Approach to the Next National Housing Strategy - Canadian Housing & Renewal Association
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Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Face eating leopard is starting to find face eating so BORING
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Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Please join legal scholar Alexandra Flynn & I as we lay out a rights-based approach to the next National Housing Strategy April 14 at noon ET chra-achru.ca/a-rights-bas...
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A Rights-Based Approach to the Next National Housing Strategy - Canadian Housing & Renewal Association
Home » Webinars » A Rights-Based Approach to the Next National Housing Strategy A Rights-Based Approach to the Next National Housing Strategy April 14,
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Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I love seeing a well worn copy of my book Home Truths!
A woman holds a copy of a book with multiple tabs
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Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Build Canada Homes is the appetizer. What will happen with the next National Housing Strategy - will ir decrease homessness and housing need in a way that the previous NHS didn’t? - that’s the main course. www.ipolitics.ca/2026/03/20/b...
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Will ‘Build Canada Homes’ move the needle in affordable homes?
Explore how Canada is addressing the affordable housing crisis with Build Canada Homes to increase supply quickly.
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Strong Towns Ottawa @strongtownsottawa.ca · 15/03/2026
An amazing member of ours put together this graphic that really encapsulates perfectly the situation on Bank Street. There is only so much space available, and we must use it as efficiently as possible. Parking isn't that. Please sign up to delegate on March 30th in favour of bus lanes!
An OC Transpo #6 bus in a bus lane. Inside of the bus there are multiple people, each with a text showing what they're going to be doing. They say "Grabbing a bite to eat", "Going to Lansdowne", "Getting a haircut", "Bought groceries", and "Can finally fit on the bus". The final one was a user in a wheelchair.

Beside the bus there is a single person in a truck in the regular travel lane. Pointing to him it says "Just driving through". They have a thought bubble coming out from their head saying "That bus lane is going to ruin local business!".
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Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Please join me next Wednesday March 11 6 pm in Ottawa at @mayfairtheatre.bsky.social with @ottawaalliance.bsky.social to watch Thinking Beyond The Market, a film about affordable housing solutions for Canada mayfairtheatre.ca/movie/thinki...
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Thinking Beyond The Market
Thinking Beyond The Market – Screening on Wednesday March 11 at 6:15pm! Free Admission. This film takes you across Canada to learn about policies, programs and projects that are already happening and ...
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Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Please join me in #oshawa next Monday, March 9 7 pm to talk solutions to Canada’s housing crisis dg.derekgiberson.ca/HousingTownh...
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https://dg.derekgiberson.ca/HousingTownhall_8hcm8l
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Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Will the next National Housing Strategy prioritise those most in need? I speak with Brian Crombie youtu.be/dkvRyLnmpJg
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Carolyn Whitzman | Non Market Housing
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
What five items would you place in a time capsule? Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and maybe Mohammed bin Salman, to be opened, carefully, with precautions, in the year 3026.
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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Rebecca Solnit - Longreads
The author of The Beginning Comes After the End talks about jackrabbits, her own “informational hypervigilance,” and the one word she won’t stop using.
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Armine Yalnizyan @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Coming back to this story, the care economy has been driving the Canadian job market since the pandemic, but especially 2024-2025, despite the clampdown on international study permits. It's quite something that this sector is not part of the Canada Strong industrial strategy.
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Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
In which my hand gestures… go wild as I discuss the need to scale up housing that works.
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IRPP @irpp.org · 02/02/2026
🎧What broke housing in Canada and how do we fix it? Jennifer speaks with housing expert @cwhitzman.bsky.social on the policy choices behind today’s crisis and the practical pathways forward, from non-market housing to financing reform. Out on all platforms + YouTube. irpp.org/podcast/what...
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What Broke Housing in Canada, and How to Fix It - IRPP
In this episode of Futureproofing Canada, host Jennifer Ditchburn speaks with Carolyn Whitzman, one of the country’s leading housing experts, about how decades of policy choices created today’s housin...
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Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
At Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa public event on Emergency Shelter Transformation with Calgary Drop In & Niagara Resource Service for Youth, featuring Jennifer McKelvie MP & Catherine Cullen from CBC.
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Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Excellent prescription.
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Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I hope they make it after all.
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More Neighbours Toronto @moreneighboursto.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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a woman in a pink shirt is standing next to a man in a wheelchair at a desk .
Alt: Parks and Rec gif: A woman walks around the outside of a circular desk, trying to talk to Ron, who is seated in the center of the desk, but he is rotating himself around in a chair just fast enough to avoid eye contact.
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Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
In which I have much to say about planners as change agents.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
This would be so popular at the national level if centrist Democrats let us use those words in that order
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Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Thanks, @glengower.ca
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
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Brian Doucet @briandoucet.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Here's the info for the Ottawa screening! I'm looking forward to this event, especially since @cwhitzman.bsky.social & I will talk housing as part of the Q&A discussion after the film! The event is free & all are welcome
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Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
It’s been a while since I’ve seen an all white male panel like this (not shown: 2 online panelists, 1 moderator - also pale male) but worship of Ed Glaeser is a must as well
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
This is really important. The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.
High density residential street in downtown Vancouver with 5(!) rows of street trees creating “kissing canopies”.
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Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
What the federal budget means for cities this Thursday noon ET - moderated by @canurb.bsky.social featuring @fcm.ca @thehubcanada.bsky.social & @uoftcities.bsky.social (me) us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: 2025 CityTalk | Live — "There’s the Money! What The Federal Budget Means For City Building". After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about ...
The local impact of national priorities: what the budget really means for Canadian communities. The 2025 federal budget sets the tone for how Canada plans to tackle its biggest challenges — housing, ...
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School of Cities @uoftcities.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Nov. 9: Join Carolyn Whitzman Senior Housing Researcher, for a talk at Koffler Arts about artist Tracey Snelling’s Intergalactic Planetary exhibition and how they both explore the ways that marginalized communities navigate and shape urban spaces ow.ly/ucnx50Xl6mB
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Waterloo Region Yes In My Backyard @wryimby.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
We'll be discussing @cwhitzman.bsky.social's book Home Truths on November 23rd, 2pm, downtown Kitchener. DM us for the address if you'd like to join this book club!
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Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
This is a great article - great visuals & great summary of why we need 4 storey apartments with single egress everywhere in North American cities.
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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Yikes. www.environicsinstitute.org/docs/default...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
I tweet: "people who see 50% of their monthly paycheck go to rent don't care if a candidate eats with their hands. they want to hear what your candidate is going to do about housing."

John Galt 2025 replies: "Move if the cost of living is too high."
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Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Bravo. Toronto - and Canada - need this. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...
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A dense, urban Canada? It’s possible
A specific, provocative proposal for how Toronto might evolve offers good ideas
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More Neighbours Toronto @moreneighboursto.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Toronto recently allowed more 6 storey apartments on Major Streets but what would it take to make "courtyard" apartment blocks? * 4-6 storey permissions on adjacent streets * front yard setbacks of 2 m or less * single stair and European elevator standards * modest garbage room in the basement
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LostArcNZ @lostarcnz.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
The solutions proposed for New Zealand's (and virtually every other country's) problems are always like: "We need to make people work for more years" "We have to cut back on services, I'm sorry, there is just no other way" "We have to cut benefits for young people" never: "We need to tax the rich"
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
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Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
This is why we need bus lands on Bank Street. We don’t need extensive consultations or debates or both side-ism to find a “balance;” we need bold action, bold leadership to design public space in the public interest and just do it. @strongtownsottawa.ca
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Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
The underlying assumptions of 4 competing federal housing need assessments betray different visions of ‘housing 4all’. Featuring my rights-based work for @housinglogement.bsky.social spacing.ca/vancouver/20...
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Four Projections, One Crisis - Spacing Vancouver
What happens when four different reports give four different answers to the same housing question? Every few months, a new report is released with a headline number meant to define the scale of Canada...
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School of Cities @uoftcities.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
@cwhitzman.bsky.social co-authored this report, funded by Maytree, as the culmination of a project working with non-market developers to find a model that Build Canada Homes could employ to unlock affordability in innovative, scalable, sustainable ways schoolofcities.utoro...
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Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
For those of you who missed the CUI/Maytree Citytalk last week on scaling up government-built housing with @tylermeredith.bsky.social & Graeme Hussey, the recording is up! citytalkcanada.ca/discussions/...
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Tackling Canada's housing crisis: How the federal government can build at scale now - City Talk
Note to Readers: This discussion was created in partnership with CUI's valued partner, Maytree. Cover photo by Scott Webb on Unsplash.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while worker pay is up just 26%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Great episode, as always. Canada would be well-advised to accommodate EU elevators codes (and other elements of the building code). Especially in today’s age where we are looking to diversify trade relations and tying ourselves exclusively to the US market has become particularly problematic.
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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 25/09/2025
Single-stair stacked-flats, next to the park. 33' lots. Each floor plate is 24' x 56' and can have one "family size" 3Br flat, or two small units.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"
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Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
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Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
If you're interested in how the Canadian federal government can build affordable housing at scale now, please join us next Thursday, September 25 at noon ET for a great webinar: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: CityTalk Live - "Tackling Canada’s housing crisis: How the federal government can build at scale now". After registering, you will receive a confirmation em...
Canada needs at least 4.4 million affordable homes, including three million deeply affordable homes for very low- and low-income households, to end homelessness and fulfil the right to adequate housin...
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Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The often ignored word ‘universal’ is key to human rights www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c31f2f5...
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights should not be written off as a failure
The aim of treating everyone with respect is not a lofty goal beyond our reach. It’s where we are meant to begin
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