Webinars
Since 2019, the SPCK&D has hosted several webinars to inform the community of social planning and housing-related information. Please find presentation slides, contacts of guest speakers, and more information provided below.
Please email spckingston00@gmail.com to be put on our mailing list to join the next webinar!
Past Webinars
Check out the slides from our October 2024 Webinar: Is Kingston at risk of losing rental housing?
Guest speakers included:
Ken Foulds (Re/fact Consulting) - Rental Market & Social Housing Rentals
Robert Melo (Chair, Kingston Rental Property Owners Association) - Smaller Landlords at Risk
Erin Finn (President, Kingston Area Real Estate Association) - Real Estate Market Pressures
We also presented on recent SPCK&D Reports:
Viability of Small Ownership Landlords - Presented by Liam McIlroy
The State of Tenant Displacement Among People with Disabilities in Kingston - Presented by Alessandro Vina and Cooper Wilson
Read the reports here!
Check out the slides from our November 2023 Webinar on the Many Faces of Urban and Rural Displacement Project: Kingston Report
Presented by Dylyn Reid-Davies, Report Author and Research Coordinator
with support by Leslie Benecki, Project Manager and Vice-Chair of the SPCK&D
funded by the Social Planning Network of Ontario (SPNO)
Read the report here!
Check out the slides from our March 2023 Webinar on Rental Market Trends & Challenges for Affordable Places to Call Home
Guest speakers included:
Olga Golozub (Senior Analyst, Economics, CMHC) presented on the CMHC Rental Market Report, 2023
Patricia Streich (SPCK&D) and Makenna Humes presented on Vanishing Affordable Rental Housing: Impacts of REITs in Kingston's Rental Market as well as Vancouver's
Ken Foulds (Re/fact Consulting) presented on The Sustainability of Non-profit Housing After Mortgages Are Repaid - Signs of Things to Come
We express our appreciation to the presenters and attendees for joining us for our first event of 2023.
Check out the slides from our April 2022 Webinar on Housing Alternative for Seniors: Aging in Community
Please find attached the presentation from our guest speakers.
Guest speakers included:
Peter Clutterbuck and Doug Cartan from Seniors For Social Action (SSAO), which is an association of older adults from across Ontario advocating for change.
Representatives from OASIS also presented a briefing on their research study and the alternative ways in which these retirement communities better support healthy aging.
We thank the attendants of the webinar for their active participation during the community discussion on how to encourage the Ontario government to recognize alternatives to the institutionalization of seniors.
Check out the slides from our June 2021 Webinar on Tiny Homes
Please find attached the presentations from our guest speakers.
Guest speakers included our chair, Patricia Streich and Kevin Beauchamp.
This presentation introduced concepts and case studies (including Kingston's new Homes For Heroes) of successful scenarios in which tiny homes have been used as a tool to support affordable housing targets.
We thank the community for the overwhelming interest in innovative solutions to providing affordable housing.
Check out the slides from our April 2021 Webinar on Community Benefits and Affordable Housing
Please find attached the presentations from our guest speakers.
Guest speakers included our chair, Patricia Streich and Steve Pomeroy.
Check out the slides from our February 2021 Webinar on Equity and Urban Planning
Please find attached the presentations from our guest speakers.
This presentation invited Queen's planning students to present research on current trends in municipal equity planning and best practices for community land trusts and community benefits agreements.
Contacts of presenters:
Alex Pysklywec -18jap4@queensu.ca
Claire Lee - claire.lee@queensu.ca
Meg Meldrum - m.meldrum@queensu.ca
Ellen McGowan - ellen.mcgowan@queensu.ca
Faith Ford - faith.ford@queensu.ca
Check out the slides from our October 2020 Webinar on Supportive Affordable Housing
Please find attached the presentations from our guest speakers.
Presenters included:
Kyla Tanner - Project Manager with CAHDCO, Ottawa
Jena Bailey - Quinte Community and Housing First Partnership Co-Ordinator, Belleville
Julie Kingstone - (Co-Leader, Director of Operations LiveWorkPlay, Ottawa) and Mitchell Grange - Manager, Housing and Early Years Programs, Housing & Social Services Department,. City of Kingston
Check out the slides from our August 2019 Webinar with the Community Housing Transformation Centre
Please find attached the presentations from our guest speakers.
For those interested, please find attached the presentation provided by Stephan Corriveau and the following links to the Centre.
Community Housing Transformation Centre – www.centre.support
Check out the slides from our June 2019 Webinar on the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Strategy
Thank you to those of you who were able to attend the Canada Mortgage and Housing Webinar Event on June 10th hosted by the Social Planning Council of Kingston & District (SPCK&D) and Developmental Services Ontario. Please find the full deck of Webinar slides. As promised we have attached Jamie Shipley’s presentation which includes his contact information.
The following links were also requested:
Community Housing Transformation Centre: https://centre.support
Link to CMHC’s Newsroom to view approved projects: https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/media-newsroom