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Michael Shapcott

Housing and Homelessness: Organizing for Social Change

While all the indicators point to deep and persistent housing insecurity and homelessness, there are opportunities for action on the policy landscape. That’s the key message from the Wellesley Institute’s Director of Housing and Innovation, Michael Shapcott, to the Ontario Project for Inter-Clinic Community Organizing provincial conference in Toronto on June 13th. The presentation notes are attached here.

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Michael Shapcott

Michael Shapcott

Michael Shapcott is Director, Affordable Housing and Social Innovation at Wellesley Institute. Michael has worked extensively in Toronto, in many parts of Canada, nationally and internationally on social innovation, the non-profit sector, civic engagement, housing and housing rights, poverty, social exclusion, urban health and health equity. He is recognized as one of Canada’s leading community-based housing and homelessness experts. He is currently on secondment to the Princes' Charities Canada.

Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.