Iler Campbell associate, Fatema Jivaji, will be moderating a panel on Models for Managing Affordable Housing at the 2024 Summit hosted by the Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts.  The panel will explore diverse models for managing affordable rental housing. Alia Abaya from Circle Community LandTrust will focus on their organization’s decision to manage properties in house. Mike Bulthuis from Ottawa Community Land Trust will discuss considerations in outsourcing management to a property manager or a commercial tenant. Joshua Barndt from Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust will share why their organization chooses to leasing their units to an operator. Finally, Zack Bradley from Kensington Community Land Trust will present their hybrid model that combines elements of both in-house and outsourced management. Each panel member will delve into the factors that informed each model, including, scalability, operational capacity, benefits and challenges, governance issues, and legal ramifications.

September 30^th, 2021, was the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Ontario. Since then, Canadians continue to pay tribute to the children who didn’t return to their homes and those who survived residential school trauma. Additionally, affected families and communities are remembered as part of the reconciliation process.

Our office will be closed on September 30, 2024, so that we can educate ourselves about this day and how the history of mistreatment still continues to distress indigenous communities across Canada. More information about National Day for Truth and Reconciliation can be found here.