Purpose and Need

City Without Art? Not Net Loss, Plus! is the first report to identify the loss of artist production space and offer sustainable solutions for the urgent crisis facing visual artists in Vancouver's Eastside through empirical data, including a comprehensive artist survey, in-depth community research...

MAJOR NEW STUDY. Space for Community: Understanding the Real Estate Challenges Affecting the Social Purpose Sector in BC turns anecdote into evidence documenting the impact of soaring real estate markets on organizations that support the health and wellbeing of individuals, families, employees and...

Part of a research on real estate through the lens of equity, inclusion and reconciliation, this annotated bibliography focuses on different forms of discrimination, racism and bias and how this influences availability, rights and use of land and property.

A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper: The Land Back project is about reclaiming indigenous jurisdiction. The Red Paper is about how Canada dispossesses indigenous peoples from the land and what communities are doing to get it back.

June 18, 2020 Land For Community Benefit Final Report. With the arrival of the Covid19 Pandemic, many not-for-profits and social enterprises were called to the fore—supporting society and vulnerable populations to safely move through the crisis, all the while seeing their operating contexts and...

This report aims to put land where it belongs: at the heart of political debate and discussion. It proposes radical but practical changes in the way land in the UK is used and governed. - George Monbiot

"Creating and preserving affordable housing and other community-owned assets in Canada is more critical than ever given the rapid escalation of real estate costs and the relative stagnation of wages in major urban markets. This makes the need for the non-profit sector to increase its real estate...

SPRE's landmark first ever study in Canada. Examines the impacts of the commercial real estate market on non profits and social enterprises in the Vancouver region.