UDI Webinar - Opening Doors: Unlocking Housing Supply for Affordability
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UDI Webinar - Opening Doors: Unlocking Housing Supply for Affordability
Date:
July 21, 2021
Time:
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
Registration:
Sorry, public registration for this event has been closed.
Event Description:
For the first time in a long time, there is significant reason to feel hope and optimism about B.C.’s housing affordability crisis. By now, we all know the problems – too few home options, long approval delays, high rents and ballooning prices. Those issues have only worsened during the pandemic, leading to extreme frustration, community conflict and bidding wars.
A growing consensus is emerging from UDI members, the Canada-BC Expert Panel on Housing, academics and select municipal leaders that bold senior government action is required.
Join members of the Canada-British Columbia Expert Panel as they delve into their policy recommendations including, enforceable housing targets, a policy key to unlocking the much-needed supply of all forms of housing.
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Joy MacPhail is currently the Chair of the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia and is an owner of OUTtv, the world’s longest airing LGBTQ+ television network. Joy served as an elected member of British Columbia’s Legislative Assembly representing Vancouver-Hastings from 1991 to 2005. During this time she served in a variety of roles, including Minister of Health, Minister of Finance, Deputy Premier and Leader of the Opposition. She is an experienced board member having served on several boards, including Delta Hotels Ltd., Silverbirch Hotels and Resorts Ltd. and the B.C. Cancer Foundation. She is currently Chair of the Board of Trustees of Adler University, a graduate school with campuses in Vancouver and Chicago, and is a director of Covenant House Vancouver.
Jock Finlayson is Executive Vice President and Chief Policy Officer at the Business Council of British Columbia where he has worked since 1994. Prior to assuming his current position, he was Vice President of Research at the Business Council of Canada (previously the Canadian Council of Chief Executives). He has served on boards of directors and advisory groups for a number of organizations, including the Bank of Canada, Statistics Canada’s National Statistics Council, the Institute for Research on Public Policy, the Canada West Foundation, Genome BC, Canada’s Digital Supercluster, and the B.C. Innovation Council. In addition, he has served as president of the Association of Professional Economists of B.C. and the Ottawa Economics Association.
Brian McCauley is the President and CEO of Concert Properties. For over 25 years Brian has played a key role in the development of some of Concert’s largest mixed-use projects, and in 2001 guided Concert’s expansion in Ontario where he led the development of assured rental housing in Toronto. He presently serves on the boards of the Urban Development Institute (UDI) Pacific Region and Junior Achievement BC. He previously participated on the Funding Allocation & Housing Committee for Streetohome and is a past director of the Building Industry and Land Development Association of Toronto (BILD).
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Location:
Zoom webinar
Date/Time Information:
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
9:30 - 10:30 AM
Fees/Admission:
Member Price $20 + GST
Non-Member Price $30 + GST
CANCELLATION POLICY:
72 hours' notice required.
Substitutions allowed.
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