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On The Way Home — 282 episodes

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Indigenous-Led Housing and Human Rights: A Conversation with Margaret Pfoh

2

Designing Ontario’s Next Housing Bill: Bold Ideas to Unlock Non-Profit Housing at Scale

3

From Sector to System: Reimagining Canada’s Community Housing Future

4

Rethinking Student Housing: Co-ops, Community, and Equity with Nathi Zamisa

5

Scaling Housing Impact with Ala’a Shadid

6

Aging with Dignity: Community, Care, and Connection with Tom Hunter

7

Supportive Housing as Community Infrastructure: A Conversation with Victor Willis

8

Strengthening Supports and Futures: A Conversation with Jen Crowe

9

Reconciliation in Practice: A Conversation with Deliah Bernard

10

Where Mental Health, Housing, and Hope Meet: A Conversation with Alyse Bernbaum

11

Learning from Global Models: Homelessness Trends and Study Tours with Nick Falvo

12

Housing as Healthcare: A Conversation with David Fry

13

Three Decades on the Frontlines: Sheldon Polett on Canada’s Housing Crisis

14

Reimagining Cities for Youth: Co-Living, Data, and the Future of Housing with Robert Barnard

15

From Policy to Practice: Building Affordable Housing at the Municipal Level with Jessica DeVreeze

16

From Survival to Stability: Jason Miles on Home, Recovery, and Hope

17

Centering Youth Voice and Reconciliation with Bailey Waukey

18

Thinking Beyond the Market with Brian Doucet

19

Designing Better Systems for Better Service with Michelle Parisien

20

Meeting Young People Where They Are with Mark Aston

21

Postcards From Helsinki: What Canada Can Learn About Ending Homelessness

22

Scaling Care Without Losing the Human Touch with Alain Cadieux

23

Towards Housing Justice: A Conversation with Dr. Prentiss Dantzler

24

Housing Is Health: What Dunn House Teaches Us About Upstream Care with Dr. Andrew Boozary

25

Reimagining Co-op Housing with Heather Tremain

26

Building for the Long Term: How Partnerships Power Supportive Housing in Ottawa

27

Costs vs. Prices: Adam Mongrain on Rethinking Canada’s Housing Diagnosis

28

Re-Igniting the Future of Housing: Introducing Ontario’s Affordable Housing Investment Fund

29

Beyond the Buzzwords: What “Scale” and "Innovation" Really Means in Housing

30

From Evidence to Action: Nick Falvo on Paths to Ending Homelessness in Canada

31

Heather McDonald on Built for Good and Unafraid to Be First and Fast

32

Building Canada’s Housing Future: A Conversation with CHRA’s Ray Sullivan

33

Building a Society That Works: Finland’s Housing First Transformation

34

Powering Affordability: How Energy Efficiency Supports Non-Market Housing

35

Reframing Housing: Leilani Farha on Human Rights, Financialization, and Hope

36

Communicating Impact and Driving Systems Change in Housing

37

Marie-Josée Houle: Advancing the Right to Housing

38

Building Futures: The Launch of Construct Canada

39

From Functional Zero to National Momentum: Tim Richter on What’s Next for Ending Homelessness in Canada

40

Building Housing, Trust, and Community Power "Brique par Brique"

41

ONPHA’s Role in Solving Ontario’s Housing Crisis and What to Expect at the 2025

42

Disruption and Compassion in Housing Leadership with Phillip Mills

43

Housing and Health: Building Integrated Solutions with Intention with Alex Cheng

44

Blueprints for Change: Vicky’s Path from Construct to Community Leader

45

Bold Ideas for a Dignified Future + Leadership, Trust, and Ending Poverty with Neil

46

Seizing the Moment: Housing’s Historic Shift with John Fox

47

Reimagining Housing: with Purpose and Partnership with Scott

48

Home & Healing: Integrated Mental Health & Housing with Nicole Jones

49

Green Homes and Healthier Living: Michael Quast on Passive House Canada’s Vision for Sustainable Housing

50

Diving into the Canadian “Homefront”: Housing Affordability & Innovation on Daniel Foch

51

Housing Justice and Grassroots Change with Aislinn Clancy

52

Boardroom to Frontline: How Collective Leadership is Reshaping Toronto’s Shelter System

53

Bill by Bill: Unpacking Ontario’s Legislative Impact on Housing and Homelessness

54

Tech and AI Innovations for Urban Planning with Devin Tu

55

Looking Back, Moving Forward: Emmy Kelly Hosts a Farewell Conversation with Michael Braithwaite

56

A new podcast on preventing youth homelessness

57

Creating painless and affordable dental care for our most vulnerable with Ross Perry

58

Advocating for Trans, two-spirit, queer, and disabled individuals with Trina Prince

59

Taking action with Cheryll Case and CP Planning

60

Basic Income Panel “Basic Guaranteed Income

61

Lived experience and the prevention of youth homelessness with Jayne

62

Supporting Toronto’s most vulnerable with Cari

63

A different way to finance and build housing with Mark and Aleeya

64

Coalition to Build a Resilient Housing System

65

Drilling down on the Federal Liberals' Housing Platform with Minister Nathaniel Erskine-Smith

66

Black Youth Housing

67

Dunn House- the creation of Social medicine

68

Healthcare on the move with Carolyn Dyer

69

Bridging the Divides: Voices & Visions about Homelessness in Mid-Size Cities- A new documentary

70

Social Housing and Human Rights Coalition with Shauna

71

Homelessness Growing in Ontario with Jesse and Michael

72

Housing, Homelessness and the Ontario Election- A Panel Discussion

73

CHRA Congress 2025- Saskatoon

74

Encampments in Ontario and the threat of using force and punishment to clear them- a panel discussion

75

Preventing Youth Homelessness in Wales with Bill Rowlands

76

The United Way steps into Social Purpose Real Estate with Stefphon and Ruth

77

Food insecurity and the affordability crisis with Sahar and Richard

78

Making home ownership affordable across Canada, a chat with Habitat for Humanity Canada, CEO, Pedro Barata

79

Housing as Infrastructure with Martin Joyce

80

Why Government Relations strategy matters in the battle to end homelessness

81

Making Housing Matter as a City Councilor with Ariel Troster

82

An ounce of prevention with Melanie & Stephen

83

How can the Non-profit sector play a bigger role in affordable housing

84

Fixing the Housing Crisis with Carolyn Whitzman

85

Building solutions to the housing crisis with Cahdco with Adrian

86

The annual report on Poverty in Canada

87

The Revitalization of Regent Park with Mitchell Cohen

88

Q&A Special- with Michael Braithwaite

89

Understanding Canada's Social Landscape- With Ricardo and Liam

90

A Great Story of Surviving and Thriving- With the Incredible Guy Felicella

91

Sudbury's Creative Housing Solutions - With Tyler Campbell

92

Waterfront Toronto builds Affordable Housing- With Meg Davis

93

Experiencing Homelessness with a Disability

94

Can decreasing taxes on new builds create new affordable housing- With Matt Young

95

Mental health and Homelessness- With Rebecca and Keir

96

Homelessness and Ontario’s Justice System

97

International response to Housing Refugees

98

Being the change you want to see with Tim Coldwell

99

Lara, Alesia, Jill and Denise: Seniors and Homelessness, a growing concern.

100

Canadian learnings from a Housing and Homelessness Study Tour in London

101

Khulud Baid and Michele Biss: Creating Shelter Standards for Women and Gender Diverse people

102

Senior Housing Panel

103

CMHC: Making the Connect to Capital Dollars to Build Affordable Housing

104

Alex Sheremet: The brilliant life of Bruce Ario

105

Negar Shahryari: Homelessness in the Middle East and Africa

106

Andrea Nemtin: A social innovation approach to our current housing crisis

107

Paying It Forward With Kenn Bell

108

Jeff Neven

109

Suzanne Fazia

110

Sherry Larjani- Making housing happen

111

Housing and Homelessness experts weigh in on the Federal Budget

112

Eric Tworo: The role appraisers play in the valuation of affordable housing

113

Ian Arthur: Addressing key frictions in the building sector to address the housing and affordability crisis in Canada

114

Ashley Travis: Housing for all includes housing for pets

115

A coalition for a National Housing Acquisition fund

116

Sara Goldvine: BC Housing- Ramping up to meet the needs of Vulnerable Communities

117

Steffan Jones and Jolene Livingston: Scaling of Affordable Housing across Canada

118

Andrea Reimer & Khulud Baig: Why is it important to have a gender lens on housing and homelessness?

119

Nick Flavo: Bringing Housing and Homelessness free training and education to the masses

120

Dr. Melanie Doucet: Involving the voices of lived experience in Child Welfare policy reform

121

Joe Deschanes Smith: Affordable Home Ownership for All

122

Jen Taylor and Darlene Sparks: How the Coldest Night of the Year event is taking North America by storm, raising awareness and millions in the battle to end homelessness

123

Tom Muir and Alex Cheng: Policing and Social Services- A Written Agreement on How They Can Best Work Together to Serve Vulnerable Populations

124

John Fox: Understanding Ontario’ New Housing Legislation

125

Annie Hodgins: The Secure Homes for Renters Campaign- Canadian Housing Rights Association

126

Sam Watts

127

Gil Yaron

128

Robert Pradolin

129

Sue O'Neil, Claire Dulude, Andrea Ondrade

130

Jessica Long, Leah Cogan, and Oren

131

Steve Pomeroy

132

Gracen Johnson

133

Larry Cohen

134

Carolyn Whitzman

135

Greg Ould

136

Leigh Bursey

137

Nik Schruder and Charlie Aucoin

138

Modupe, Nemoy and Cecile

139

Rebecca Siggner

140

Alan Mulawshyn

141

Sarah Tarcea

142

Tyler Meredith

143

Keir MacDonald

144

Keith Gowans

145

Nick Falvo & Mary Clarke

146

Al Wiebe

147

Tim Richter And Michael Brooks

148

Frank Berube

149

Migrant Farmers with Gabriel Allahdua

150

2SLGBTQ+ With Brian and Carl

151

Jacq Brasseur

152

Lee Stevens

153

Mallory VanMeeter and Jacqueline White

154

Chef Cori

155

CEO of City Relief, Josiah Haken

156

Gary Gladstone from Reena

157

Toronto Mayoral Election Panel

158

Professor David Green

159

Encampments in Waterloo

160

Community Advocate Marj Andre

161

Director of Matthew House Alan Reesor-McDowell

162

The Tenant Class With Author Ricardo Tranjan

163

Jacob Gorenkoff from CHRA

164

Jackie Evans from NRB Modular Construction

165

Andrew Miller Tiny Homes and Domes Nine Mile North

166

Marc Abesdris and Evan Mintz From Card For Change

167

Jennifer Laidley and Mohy Tabbara From Maytree

168

Earl Thiessen From Oxford House

169

Bridge Healing Transitional Accommodation Program With Dr. Louis Francescutti

170

Blue Door’s Very Own Emma Wood

171

Juha Kahila from the Y-Foundation

172

Sheldon Pollett & Sherri Payne From Choices Youth

173

President And CEO Of CAEH Tim Richter

174

Joshua Barndt, the Executive Director Of The Neighbourhood Land Trust

175

Chair of the Youth Council for the Youth Homelessness Prevention Samantha Lobb

176

Masters Student Victoria Barclay

177

Senior Analyst On Housing Supply Team Angela Schleihauf

178

Chair of the National Advisory Council on Poverty, Scott MacAfee

179

Taking Action With Marc Boychuk

180

Affordable Housing With MICAH President Mike Clare

181

More Homes Built Faster Act better known as Bill 23

182

CEO Of The Daily Bread Food Bank Neil Hetherington

183

Scars and Stars with Jesse Thistle

184

Tools for homelessness prevention

185

What is the Right to Housing and how does everyone get it?

186

Preventing Indigenous Youth Homelessness

187

Squeegee Kids, their criminalization and homelessness experience

188

Seeing Double on Youth Homelessness

189

Taking (or not taking) a gender- based approach to ending homelessness

190

What do we really know about encampments?

191

Housing Crisis With Dr. Howard Koh

192

How do we age in different environments with Sarah Canham

193

Matthew Barker

194

Matthew Downie, who is the Chief Executive at Crisis in the U.K.

195

Kellie Chin, an architect employed at WORKSHOP

196

Ellery Rosin

197

Eric Phillip, the Director of Real Estate and Property Management at Dixon Hall

198

Matti Siemiatycki, the Director of the Infrastructure Institute and Professor of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto

199

Dr. Antoine Lovell

200

Doug Pawson

201

Danielle Neilson

202

Safiyah Husein from the John Howard Society of Ontario

203

Maytree’s Garima Talwar Kapoor

204

Human Rights Claims

205

Dr. Robb Kelly

206

“Dwell” Housing Equity Program

207

Deirdre Freiheit, Shepherds of Good Hope

208

2SLGBTQ+ youth and homelessness

209

Kevin Webb, the Director of Emergency Shelter and Housing at the DI

210

Julia Markovich, Acting Advisor, Research at CMHC

211

Marie-Josée Houle

212

Peter McMillan, Executive Officer at NT Shelter in Australia

213

Vote4Housing

214

Dr. Paul Kershaw

215

Margo Schulte Long President and CEO of Youth Empowerment and Support Services (YESS) in Edmonton, and Carola Cunningham, Carola Cunningham, CEO of Niginan Housing Ventures

216

Jordan Press, a reporter at the Canadian Press

217

John Neufeld about House of Friendship

218

Amanda Katz, Executive Director of Homeless Cars

219

Marc Soberano the Executive Director of Raising the Roof

220

Kaite Burkholder Harris, the Executive Director at the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa

221

Mark Richardson a volunteer at HousingNowTO

222

How the Covid19 pandemic has impacted 2SLGBTQ+ youth across York Region

223

John Fox About The Ontario Housing Affordability Task Force

224

Jake and Julie from CHRA

225

Jeff Willmer, Co-Founder of A Better Tent City

226

Stéphane Corriveau - Community Housing Transformation Centre

227

Coldest Night of the Year

228

Mariana Gallo from Word Habitat

229

Scott MacAfee, the Chairperson of the National Advisory Council on Poverty

230

Isabel Cascante and Trisha Scantlebury

231

Yasushi Ohki

232

Charly Ligety

233

Dr. Alina Turner

234

What On the Way Home meant to us in 2021

235

Us and Them

236

National Housing Strategy Solutions Labs

237

Northern Access: Housing Supply Challenge

238

Justine Levesque

239

3D-printing homes & housing supply

240

Dianne Himbeault

241

The right to housing in Canada

242

Melanie Redman

243

Tim Richter

244

Juha Kaakinen

245

Measuring a community's social capital

246

Dr. Naheed Dosani

247

Housing Professionals Mentorship Program

248

New pan-Canadian survey on women's homelessness

249

Mumilaaq Qaqqaq

250

Election 44: Housing affordability and renter rights

251

Election 44: Party platform analysis on housing & homelessness

252

Election 44: Housing, policy & politics

253

Election 44: Lived experts & voting for solutions

254

David Le Blanc - Elections Canada

255

Mike Lethby

256

Tom Cooper

257

Tradeworx Panel

258

Vote Housing

259

Dr. Andrew Boozary

260

Daniel McCulloch

261

Cheyanne Ratnam

262

Erin Dej

263

Community Land Trusts & Land Assembly Solutions for Affordable Housing

264

Nick Gefucia

265

Carole Saab

266

Canada’s Land Trust Models

267

Kasari Govender

268

Margaret Pfoh

269

Garth Mullins

270

Jen St. Denis

271

CMHC’s Housing Supply Challenge

272

Sekani Dakelth

273

Lorraine Lam

274

Nicholas Ridiculous & Michelle German

275

David Ireland

276

Laural Raine

277

Dr. Jeffrey Turnbull

278

Mental Health Ambassador with the University of New Brunswick-Saint John, Tara O'Toole

279

Nick Falvo

280

Bif Naked

281

Bahar Shadpour

282

Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson