The federal government is expected to release its housing report on Nov. 22, which is also National Housing Day. The following UBC experts are available to comment:
Thomas Davidoff
Sauder School of Business
Tel: 604.822.8325
Email: thomas.davidoff@sauder.ubc.ca
- Impact on affordability and rental stock
Joshua Gottlieb
Vancouver School of Economics
Tel: 604.822.4121
Email: joshua.gottlieb@ubc.ca
- Housing finance; impact on national/provincial budgets
Penny Gurstein
School of Community and Regional Planning
Tel: 604.822.6065
Email: penny.gurstein@ubc.ca
- Strategies for affordable homeownership
- Social housing trends
- Housing for marginalized groups
Paul Kershaw
School of Population and Public Health
Tel: 604.761.4583
Email: paul.kershaw@ubc.ca
- Younger Canadians and high housing prices; taxing housing wealth; building supply
- Linking housing affordability to other major costs
Nathanael Lauster
Department of Sociology
Tel: 604.827.3083
Email: nlauster@mail.ubc.ca
- Housing mix
David Ley
Department of Geography
Tel: 604.822.3268
Email: david.ley@geog.ubc.ca
- Gentrification and housing supply
Tsur Somerville
Sauder School of Business
Tel: 604.822.8343
Cell: 604.329.4585
Email: tsur.somerville@sauder.ubc.ca
- Housing finance, housing markets and affordability
Matthew Soules
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Tel: 604.822.0649
Email: msoules@sala.ubc.ca
- Accessible housing and universal design
Carlos Teixeira
Irving K. Barber School of Arts & Sciences
Tel: 250.807.9313
Email: carlos.teixeira@ubc.ca
Available starting Nov. 23
- Affordable housing for immigrants and in smaller cities
Margot Young
Peter A. Allard School of Law
Tel: 604.822.9685
Email: myoung@allard.ubc.ca
- Local housing politics and rights