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Designed to support mission-driven health organizations new to housing work, the Building With Mission Playbook provides an overview of the steps required to build more affordable housing options for older adults, from ideation through construction and operations.
Developed by the Building with Mission team, these scenarios imagine what the future may hold in the housing, care and aging landscape in Canada.
Developed by the Building with Mission team, these scenarios imagine what the future may hold in the housing, care and aging landscape in Canada.
What type of housing for older adults might you build? This document prepared by the Building With Mission was written to help organizations navigate the range of housing options available.
These six personas were designed specifically to highlight the housing needs of older adults and can be used by any organization as they begin to develop a new housing concept.
This paper provides a brief overview of six roles that Canadian healthcare delivery organizations can play to accelerate the development of new housing for older adults.
The resource collection prepared by the Hey Neighbour Collective is a helpful source of research and reports on the topic of tenant engagement and community building.
This paper identifies Canadian precedents and demonstrates how various forms of mixed model / mixed income development can be achieved and sustained.
A resource created by the University of Toronto School for Cities that presents a comprehensive set of key questions and considerations regarding your organization’s readiness to undertake an affordable housing project.
A tool and instructional videos built to inspire and support emerging affordable housing developments.
A helpful and detailed guide for groups who want to develop, build, and operate affordable rental housing.
A guide for facilitating partnership with churches and charities to develop affordable housing.
This report addresses the design of high quality age-friendly homes, urban intensification strategies, and the creation of multigenerational communities as communities aim to "Build Back Better" from the pandemic.
This report provides an overview of service delivery models that connect low- and moderate-income seniors living in social housing with health-related and supportive services and reviews 34 programs that can serve as precedents.
Intended to support the Catholic Health Association of Ontario’s (CHAO) on-going strategy and policy development work as it relates to supportive housing for vulnerable populations, this report looks at the role that supportive housing plays in allowing citizens to receive appropriate care and supports.
This report provides an overview of the sub-segments of the older adult population and their housing needs, reviews trends that are shaping the seniors’ housing market and reviews why older adults move and where they prefer to live.
This report puts forward the case for building seniors’ housing and treating chronic disease in the home and the community to alleviate the pressure on hospitals.
A real estate market report focusing on the supply and demand for seniors focused housing (seniors apartments, independent and assisted living, memory care and long term care) including market profiles of Metro Victoria, BC; Durham Region, Ontario; and Ottawa CMA, Ontario.
A real estate market report focusing on the supply and demand for seniors focused housing (seniors apartments, independent and assisted living, memory care and long term care) including market profiles of Metro Victoria, BC; Durham Region, Ontario; and Ottawa CMA, Ontario.
This report provides an overview of service delivery models that connect low- and moderate-income seniors living in social housing with health-related and supportive services and reviews 34 programs that can serve as precedents.
This report provides an overview of service delivery models that connect low- and moderate-income seniors living in social housing with health-related and supportive services and reviews 34 programs that can serve as precedents.
In response to COVID 19 and the impact it has had on the residents of long-term care facilities, this report outlines a compelling case for transforming how we house and care for aging Canadians.
Submitted to the Alberta Affordable Housing Panel, this report outlines the link between health and housing and the unique role and insights that health care providers can provide to ensure Albertans, especially low income seniors, have safe and stable housing.