MILLENNIALS AND THE HOUSING MARKET: Aspiration vs. Reality: Homeownership from a Planning and Design Perspective
Monday, February 13th, 2023 at 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
- In-person event
- Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, Ottawa, ON, K2P 0G8
Dates: February 13, 2023
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper Street
Free and open to the public
To better understand how and why the Canadian marketplace functions as it does, this session explores potential disconnects between what it produces and the kinds of housing that aspiring homeowners might want. Focusing on design, the session will also compare and contrast what is available here in Canada with innovative and design-forward housing solutions elsewhere.
PANEL
Keynote/Moderator: Pallavi Swaranjali, Professor, Interior Design, Algonquin College
Panelist: Gord Lorimer, Partner Emeritus, Architect, Hobin Architecture Incorporated
Panelist: Chris van Popta, Principal, Creative Director, Fineline Perspectives
Panelist: Dan Dixon, Senior Vice-President, Project Finance, THE MINTO GROUP
ABOUT THE LECTURE SERIES
Canada’s current housing crisis affects a broad spectrum of the population and engages supply, affordability, tenure, and tenancy. To better explore the issues at play, this series focuses on millennials as a specific demographic group, and on a particular segment of the housing market, namely housing for purchase.
The goal of this series is to explore (and question) the status quo by fostering a dialogue between millennials (those born between the early 1980s and the late ‘90s) and an array of housing experts, including urban historians, developers, real estate professionals, builders, policy makers, financing specialists, environmental experts, and socio-cultural activists.
This dialogue is intended to explore opportunities to broaden the repository of existing housing and homeownership options by identifying limitations and determining what interventions may be necessary and/or feasible given the systems under which the housing market operates in Canada.
The series is jointly sponsored by:
- Carleton University, Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism
- Algonquin College, Department of Interior Design
- The Urban Land Institute, Ottawa Chapter
- The Canadian Centre for Mindful Habitats
with generous support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council