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Developmental Services Housing Forum

  • Extend-A-Family Kingston 361 Montreal Street Kingston, ON, K7K 3H4 Canada (map)

Creating opportunity through Community Collaboration

  • Key Note Speaker

    Dr. Carolyn Whitzman is a housing and social policy researcher. Currently, she works as a senior housing researcher at University of Toronto’s School of Cities, analysing best practices to scale affordable ‘missing middle’, modular, and replicable housing. Dr. Whitzman will be speaking on the need for deeply affordable, well-located accessible housing - what has worked in the past in Canada, what is working now, and what we can learn internationally.

  • Tapestry Community Capital

    Canada’s leading service partner in community bonds. Hear Tapestry share how they support charities, non-profits and cooperatives to launch and manage community investment campaigns using community bonds to raise capital for socially and environmentally impactful projects.

  • Family Panel

    Hear from our panelists as they discuss creative community collaborations including using church and conservation land, fundraising and working with partners in their community.

  • Additional speakers to be announced

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PRESENTED BY THE HOUSING NAVIGATORS

Housing Navigators help people, their caregivers and support networks, as well as the community, learn about housing options outside of traditional Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services (MCCSS) funded housing. Housing Navigators create and provide resources and information, including a toolkit and webinars that can help you create a housing plan.

Earlier Event: November 26
Adult Program: Potions Class