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Transition, Not Arrival

The long middle of change.
  • 04-The Problem with Treating Every Housing Project Like a Prototype
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  • A Replicable Affordable Housing Idea Exchange Guide
    Proposal and invitation to collaborate
  • Can Insurance Play a Role in Climate Resilient Building Systems
  • Expect Magic
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  • Sustainable and Affordable Housing: Strategies, Innovations, and Policy Directions
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  • The Red Herring of Profit
    Think piece
  • The Telephone Game on Site. How knowledge breaks down between housing policy and construction practice.
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  • Values-based approaches to climate-resilient housing solutions
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Best Practices in Building Systems
Living Compendium beta version 2026

This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada through the Research and Knowledge Initiative (RKI), delivered and supported by Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada to advance housing and infrastructure projects across the country.

Our team works across the unceded territories of many Indigenous Peoples, including the Algonquin Anishinaabe (Ottawa), Mississaugas of the Credit, Haudenosaunee, and Huron-Wendat (Toronto), Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh (Vancouver), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Coquitlam), lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples (Victoria), and the Tla-o-qui-aht and Nuu-chah-nulth Nations (Tofino).

We recognize that land acknowledgment is not the work itself, but a reminder of our ongoing responsibilities—relational, material, and ethical—to the peoples and places that continue to steward these lands.

We commit to unsettling extractive habits in our work and to walking, with humility, toward deeper accountability.


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