Social Purpose Real Estate Collaborative - Partnerships and People

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

Category:

Purpose and Need

Partnerships and People

Governance and Regulation

Organizations Supporting Social Purpose Real Estate

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

Category:

Purpose and Need

Partnerships and People

Governance and Regulation

SPRE Member Impact Report 2020

SPRE Coordinator — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 17:58:22 +0000

A report on the aggregate impact of SPRE Collaborative members including investment data on sectors, types of organizations and properties and facilities.

Author:

SPRE Collaborative

Publisher:

SPRE Collaborative

Published date:

2020

File upload:

SPREImpact_2020_Final (003).pdf

Category:

Partnerships and People

Organizations Supporting Social Purpose Real Estate

Building Community Partnerships - Social Purpose Real Estate

SPRE Coordinator — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 00:37:08 +0000

A comprehensive look at social purpose real estate in Building Community with Partnerships, Real Estate Institute of BC, INPUT Quarterly Publication on Land & Real Estate Issues in BC, Summer 2019, Vol 47, Number 2.

Published date:

2019

External Link or URL:

https://www.flipgorilla.com/p/26183111565903384/show

Category:

Partnerships and People

Business Models and Operations

BC Housing - Leading Practises in Affordable Housing

SPRE Coordinator — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 22:11:51 +0000

Published date:

2019

File upload:

Leading-Practices-Affordable-Housing copy.pdf

Category:

Partnerships and People

Business Models and Operations

Vancouver - Small Business - Barriers/Opportunities

SPRE Coordinator — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 18:22:23 +0000

Not limited to small business, non profits and social enterprises face similar threats to their long term sustainablity through increasing land values, rising property taxes and challenges in access city permits and services.

Link to the Feb 20, 2017 Report Reference #2 to Vancouver City Council for a briefing on what the city is doing to help small business.

Published date:

2018

External Link or URL:

http://council.vancouver.ca/20180220/regu20180220ag.htm

Category:

Partnerships and People