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Accelerating Housing & Mobility Solutions: How Must Communities Change For Now and The Future?

Friday, September 12 | 12:30 p.m. ET | Live Zoom Webinar

With potential solutions on the way, what do professionals really need to know to lead change in housing and transportation?

This fall, the federal government will launch Build Canada Homes, with a historic $26 billion investment to accelerate home building. Starting April 2026, the Canada Public Transit Fund will begin rolling out $3 billion annually.

To learn how to advance your transit, housing, and complete communities projects, overcome obstacles, and seize this moment, join CityTalk's esteemed panellists for a deep dive into urban change in a rapidly evolving policy landscape.

Photo by Erik Eastman on Unsplash

Leading Urban Change

Project Accelerator Course

Led by the School of Cities at the University of Toronto

At this week's CityTalk, Karen Chapple will introduce this Fall's Leading Urban Change course focused on housing, sustainable mobility, and transit-oriented communities.

Leading Urban Change is a project accelerator. Participants will work on a current workplace initiative or challenge, explore strategies to overcome barriers, and identify growth opportunities.

The program offers engagement with industry practitioners, faculty experts, and cross sector peers, plus opportunities to expand networks and receive one-on-one coaching.

Applications close September 26th. Leading Urban Change runs October 15 – December 12 online, with two days in Toronto.

Discover Leading Urban Change

Meet our speakers

Jordan Soggie

CEO | Fort St. John Association for Community Living

Founder & CEO | Homeway Benefits

Fort St John, BC

Jordan joined FSJACL in 2023 bringing with him a range of experience in services, housing, government, and social enterprise. Jordan’s focus is on impact for the people involved in our organization through a servant leader approach.

Prior to his time with FSJACL and the government of Saskatchewan, Jordan worked in the non-profit sector, focused on reducing risk and increasing quality of life for at risk dual-diagnosis individuals. He has carried this person-centered approach, and philosophy of care with him throughout his leadership.

Jordan’s Role as CEO is to lead FSJACL in the pursuit of its mission. He believes the people at FSJACL are their greatest strength, and he is dedicated to ensuring FSJACL is building up self-advocates and supporting professionals. He maintains focus on removing barriers and creating opportunities, opportunities where everyone belongs.

Karen Chapple

Director | School of Cities, University of Toronto

Toronto, ON

Karen Chapple, Ph.D., is the Director of the School of Cities at the University of Toronto, where she also serves as Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning.

She is Professor Emerita of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as department chair and held the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Urban Studies. Chapple studies inequalities in the planning, development, and governance of regions in the Americas, with a focus on economic development and housing.

Her recent books include Planning Sustainable Cities and Regions: Towards More Equitable Development (Routledge, 2015), which won the John Friedmann Book Award from the American Collegiate Schools of Planning; Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? Understanding the Effects of Smarter Growth on Communities (with Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, MIT Press, 2019); and Fragile Governance and Local Economic Development: Theory and Evidence from Peripheral Regions in Latin America (with Sergio Montero, Routledge, 2018).

Lisa Helps

Executive Lead | BC Builds

Victoria, BC

Lisa is currently on contract as an Executive Lead for the BC Builds Project Origination at BC Housing to help with the start up of BC Builds, which launched in February 2024. Previously, she was a Housing Solutions Advisor in the Premier’s Office where she helped design, develop, and secure funding and financing for BC Builds.

BC Builds partners with government, community and private landowners, and provides low-interest repayable loans and grants to lower construction costs, speed up timelines, and deliver more homes that middle-income British Columbians can afford. BC Builds for middle-income households, people like teachers, nurses, construction workers, small business owners, and others who keep our communities running yet are being priced out of the places they live and work.

Prior to her involvement with BC Builds, she was the two-term Mayor of Victoria B.C.

Nouman Ashraf

Associate Professor | Rotman School of Management

Toronto, ON

Nouman Ashraf is the Associate Professor, Teaching Stream within the Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management area at the Rotman School of Management. He possesses a broad range of professional, academic and research interests, with a specialized focus on enabling innovative and inclusive practices within organization life. For the last decade and a half, he has progressively held senior roles at the University of Toronto. He is a recognized thought leader in governance, and has taught thousands of directors in the national Rotman program on Not for Profit Governance in partnership with the Institute for Corporate Directors since its inception in 2007.

An award winning faculty member, Nouman teaches Emancipatory Leadership within the Executive MBA as well as the OMNIUM Global Executive MBA Program, Leading Social Innovation within the 2 and 3 Year MBA programs, and Leading across Differences within the Rotman Commerce Program. He is the Academic Director of various custom leadership programs in partnership with Rotman Executive Program clients. His previous consulting clients include Telus, Cliffs Natural Resources, Bayer, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Ontario Trillium Foundation, United Way Toronto, and numerous post-secondary and healthcare institutions.

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