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Presentation | 2021
10th Annual IMFG Toronto City Manager’s Address
Chris Murray
In this presentation for the tenth annual IMFG City Manager Address, Chris Murray spoke to the urgency of a whole-of-community and whole-of-government approach to tackle the precursors of homelessness before the downstream consequences and costs multiply for all orders of government.
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Video | 2021
10th Annual IMFG Toronto City Manager’s Address
Chris Murray
In this video of the 10th Annual IMFG City Manager's Address, Chris Murray spoke to the urgency of a whole-of-community and whole-of-government approach to tackle the precursors of homelessness before the downstream consequences and costs multiply for all orders of government.
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Presentation | 2021
Development Charges and Housing Affordability: A False Dichotomy?
Adam Found
In this presentation, Adam Found reviewed the findings from his new paper for IMFG, which examined the connection between municipal development charges and housing affordability.
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Video | 2021
Development Charges and Housing Affordability: A False Dichotomy?
Adam Found
In this video, Adam Found reviews the findings from his new paper for IMFG, which examined the connection between municipal development charges and housing affordability.
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IMFG Paper | 2021
Development Charges and Housing Affordability: A False Dichotomy?
Adam Found
New IMFG Paper explores whether development charges impede housing affordability and finds they actually improve it once a larger municipal context is considered.
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Video | 2021
Indigenous-Municipal Relations in Canada: Where Do We Stand?
In this video, Doug Anderson and Alexandra Flynn discuss some of the key questions on the way to improved Indigenous-municipal relationships. Working from their paper for IMFG, Anderson and Flynn look at how Indigenous-municipal relations can move forward in a reciprocal and respectful manner.
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Video | 2021
A Self-Help Approach: Urban Design in Accra’s Informal Settlements
Hsi-Chuan Wang
In this video, IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow Hsi-Chuan Wang provides a number of examples of self-help cases from an informal settlement in Accra, Ghana, to highlight how they have built up the settlers’ daily public spaces. Wang argues that this kind of urban design represents a social movement that strengthens community norms and helps lead to political and social change.
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Presentation | 2021
A Self-Help Approach: Urban Design in Accra’s Informal Settlements
Hsi-Chuan Wang
In this presentation, IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow Hsi-Chuan Wang provided a number of examples of self-help cases from an informal settlement in Accra, Ghana, to highlight how they have built up the settlers’ daily public spaces. Wang argued that this kind of urban design represents a social movement that strengthens community norms and helps lead to political and social change.
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