Social Purpose Real Estate Collaborative - Purpose and Need

City Without Art? Not Net Loss, Plus!

SPRE Coordinator — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 22:04:53 +0000

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, and mapping analysis.

Author:

Eastside Arts Society

Publisher:

Eastside Arts Society

Published date:

2021

File upload:

City_Without_Art_Report.pdf

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Purpose and Need

Planning and Feasibility

Space for Community: Understanding the Real Estate Challenges Affecting the Social Purpose Sector

SPRE Coordinator — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 17:33:49 +0000

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 communities.

While headlines are dominated by housing affordability, all markets including commercial and social purpose are feeling the same impacts, hurting small businesses AND the not-for-profit, social enterprise and artist sectors. When these social purpose groups lose their ability to secure affordable space for their work, communities suffer—as does the economy, the environment, and our social and cultural community ‘glue’. Not being able to find, keep and maintain affordable, suitable space impacts the ability of social purpose groups to provide health, community and childcare programs, programs for youth, seniors, and vulnerable populations, environmental leadership, not to mention all of the arts and culture that enriches our lives and communities.

Author:

CapacityBuild Consulting

Publisher:

Social Purpose Real Estate Collaborative & Real Estate Institute of BC

Published date:

2021

File upload:

2021Space4Community_FINALREPORT.pdf

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Purpose and Need

Partnerships and People

Governance and Regulation

Organizations Supporting Social Purpose Real Estate

Building Community Well-being, Inclusivity and Sustainability Through the Lens of Equity, Inclusion and Reconciliation - 2021

SPRE Coordinator — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 20:20:33 +0000

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.

Author:

Danielle Bizinelli

Publisher:

Social Purpose Real Estate Collaborative & University of British Columbia

Published date:

2021

File upload:

SPRE_Equity, Inclusion and Reconciliation_ Annotated Bibliography.pdf

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Purpose and Need

Governance and Regulation

Land Back

SPRE Coordinator — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 21:42:26 +0000

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.

Author:

Shiri Pasternak, Hayden King

Publisher:

Yellowhead Institute

Published date:

2019

External Link or URL:

Land Back

Category:

Equity, Inclusion and Reconciliation

Purpose and Need

Governance and Regulation

Land for Community Benefit - Social Purpose Real Estate Collaborative & Housing Research Collaborative

SPRE Coordinator — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 15:45:20 +0000

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 financial sustainability massively altered. The crisis has daylighted risks and vulnerabilities in our current system, with a real estate market that has for decades severely challenged space for affordable housing, social and community services, childcare, arts and culture, small business, etc.

On June 18^th, the Housing Research Collaborative and the Social Purpose Real Estate Collaborative, with the support of Vancity Community Foundation, hosted an online dialogue focused on the need to secure land for community benefit at a time when our society is dealing with unprecedented threats to its economic and social sustainability.

Author:

Social Purpose Real Estate Collaborative & Housing Research Collaborative UBC

Published date:

2020

File upload:

LandComBenefit_Event Notes_FINAL.pdf

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Purpose and Need

Partnerships and People

Governance and Regulation

Land for the Many

SPRE Coordinator — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 23:50:52 +0000

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

Author:

George Monbiot

Published date:

2019

File upload:

land-for-the-many.pdf

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Purpose and Need

Andy Haldane: ‘We have allowed the voluntary sector to wither,’ The Guardian, 2019

SPRE Coordinator — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 21:34:14 +0000

Author:

Andy Haldane

Publisher:

the Guardian

Published date:

2019

External Link or URL:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/may/22/andy-haldane-bank-of-england-vol…

Category:

Purpose and Need

Community Developers Toolkit - New Commons Development

SPRE Coordinator — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 21:41:52 +0000

"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 development capacity even more critical. New Commons Development and a number of its collaborators are working to promote and facilitate this capacity building in the sector, while building and preserving affordable housing and community real estate that stays where it belongs – in the hands of the community. ...this toolkit [is] targeted at assisting community developers to work effectively with municipalities in assessing affordable housing needs in their community and understanding program and policy opportunities."

Published date:

2019

External Link or URL:

https://newcommons.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Community-Developers-Toolkit-20…

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Purpose and Need

Funding and Financing

Practical Tools and Templates

Co-Working BC Society - lists co-working spaces across BC

SPRE Coordinator — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 18:28:02 +0000

Published date:

2018

External Link or URL:

https://coworkingbc.ca

Category:

Purpose and Need

Organizations Supporting Social Purpose Real Estate

2013 Rent-Lease-Own: Understanding the Real Estate Challenges Affecting the Not-for-Profit, Social Purpose and Cultural Sectors in Metro Vancouver

spre_admin — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 15:19:09 +0000

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.

Author:

CitySpaces Consulting for the Social Purpose Real Estate Collaborative

Publisher:

Real Estate Foundation of BC

Published date:

2018

File upload:

REIBC_SPRE_Report_FINAL1.pdf

Category:

Purpose and Need