Episodes
Monday Sep 06, 2021
Episode 2, Part 1: Homelessness and Housing as a Right
Monday Sep 06, 2021
Monday Sep 06, 2021
This two-part episode offers an in-depth understanding of homelessness and housing as a right. In Part 1, we explore the systems challenges of homelessness and interventions like Housing First, as well as initiatives striving to prevent and address youth homelessness and Indigenous homelessness. In Part 2, we learn about the socially innovative solutions that are working and the barriers that remain to meaningfully redesigning these systems to help eradicate homelessness.
To better understand the complexities of homelessness, we look at the City of Hamilton as a case study. A once affordable city located on the western shores of Lake Ontario, Hamilton is now ranked the third most expensive city in North America. We examine various innovative pilot projects happening in and around this community, which has committed to ending chronic homelessness by 2025. We hear the voices of nine experts, working on homelessness in various capacities from the policy to the grassroots level, as we unpack the different perspectives and efforts underway to not just manage homelessness but to end it.
Learn more about those interviewed in this two-part episode by visiting the following links (in order of appearance):
Melanie Redman, President and CEO, A Way Home: Working Together to End Youth Homelessness Partnership; Implementation Director, Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Social Innovation Lab
https://awayhome.ca/
https://makingtheshiftinc.ca/
Amanda DiFalco, Deputy Director, Built for Zero Canada, Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness
https://bfzcanada.ca/
https://caeh.ca/
Stephen Gaetz, Professor and Research Chair in Homelessness and Research Impact, York University; President, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness; Research Director, Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Social Innovation Lab
https://www.yorku.ca/rightthefuture/stories/homelessness/
https://homelesshub.ca/
https://makingtheshiftinc.ca/
Jeff Neven, Executive Director, Indwell
https://indwell.ca/
Calogero Mattina, President, Hamilton Community Land Trust
https://www.hamiltonclt.org/
Marcie McIlveen, Outreach Co-Coordinator, Keeping Six Hamilton Harm Reduction Action League
https://keepingsix.org/
Yolisa de Jager, former Senior Project Manager of Homelessness Policy and Programs, City of Hamilton
https://www.hamilton.ca/city-initiatives/strategies-actions/homelessness-systems-planning
Erika Morton, Systems Planning Officer, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
https://homelesshub.ca/
Sheryl Green, Manager of Housing & Homelessness Supports & Services, Hamilton Regional Indian Centre
https://www.hric.ca/
Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
Episode 1: Designing a Circular, Regenerative Food System
Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
In this pilot episode in the series, we look at the food system, the challenges that existed well before the pandemic and which have been magnified during it. We examine some of the fundamental issues underpinning the modern food system. We learn about the various stakeholders working to realign the production, distribution, and consumption of food with the natural cycles so that we can meet our food needs while helping to heal the earth and our connection to it.
The focus is an exciting pilot project, called Our Food Future, taking place in Canada, in the City of Guelph and the surrounding Wellington County, which are located in the province of Ontario. We hear from a number of stakeholders working to develop Canada’s first circular food economy, which is poised to become a new model for other communities across Canada and beyond.
Learn more about those interviewed by visiting the following links:
Our Food Future
https://foodfuture.ca/our-food-future
Wellington Federation of Agriculture
https://www.wfofa.on.ca/
Janet Harrop, Harrcroft Acres
https://harrroft-acres-limited.business.site/?utm_source=gmb&utm_medium=referral
Nathan Smith, Winterhill Farm & Garden
https://winterhillfarmandgarden.com/
Val Steinmann, Heartwood Farm & Cidery
https://heartwoodfarm.ca/
Cher Mereweather, Provision Coalition
https://provisioncoalition.com/
Barb Swartzentruber, Smart Cities Office, City of Guelph, Our Food Future
https://guelph.ca/city-hall/city-administrators-office/smart-cities-challenge/
Richard Preiss, Escarpment Laboratories
https://escarpmentlabs.com/
Court Desautels, The Neighbourhood Group
https://www.neighbourhoodgroup.com/restaurants
Lynn Broughton, Taste Detours
https://tastedetours.ca/
Brian Watson, Kortright Presbyterian Church
https://www.kortrightchurch.org/
Emily Huddart Kennedy, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia
https://sociology.ubc.ca/profile/emily-huddart-kennedy/
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/
Monday Mar 29, 2021
Welcome to Designing a Humane Future Podcast
Monday Mar 29, 2021
Monday Mar 29, 2021
Check out a new podcast series called Designing a Humane Future. This podcast explores how we can actively engage in imagining and designing a future that is more equitable, intentional, and humane. Episodes in this series will feature interviews with thought leaders in healthcare, housing, food systems, community building, media, and more.
Join me as we explore how we can redesign capitalism: to work within the system to make it fairer, kinder and more supportive of a life we want to live now and going forward. Look for upcoming episodes of Designing a Humane Future at Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts.