The School of Cities and the University of Toronto Entrepreneurship hosted seven HSC innovators to present their solutions in response to the housing crisis in Canada. The event provided a platform for engaging in transformative housing-related conversations, fostering collaboration and partnerships.
Innovator pitch presentations
Samantha Eby
ReHousing is a web platform offering pre-approved housing designs and financial planning tools to help homeowners explore opportunities to convert single-detached homes into multi-unit housing.
Ivan Vasyliv
Serotiny Group is a management strategy group with a focus on modular hybrid mass timber.
Monika Jaroszonek
Ratio.City, a division of Esri Canada provide online collaboration tools, that give planners and developers access to shared data on development potential, precedence, process and compliance, to speed up the application and approvals process for new construction.
Ramtin Attar
The project will scale a ready-to-deploy homebuilding robotic factory as-a-service™ designed for autonomous and rapid production of timber-based buildings. Promise Robotics manages automation, allowing partners to focus on homebuilding. The goal is to scale decentralized manufacturing of prefabricated buildings.
Rosaline Hill
Building IN removes all the barriers to low-rise multi-unit modular and conventional infill housing, a solution that works at scale in existing neighbourhoods. BuildingIN helps cities meet their housing targets and provides a catalogue of permit ready designs.
Marwan Kassay
This project provides a turnkey design, construction, and financing solution specifically for affordable and supportive housing providers. It promotes cost and schedule certainty for multi-site projects in Canada.
Michael Bowerin
Flourish supports clients such as municipalities, non-profits, faith communities, and other organizations to create affordable housing solutions that promote community well-being.
Ryan Collins-Swartz & Kyle Zhang
This initiative provides a platform, administrative support, and project consulting to help community housing providers in raising low-cost capital through community bonds. It enables regular Canadians to contribute to meaningful local projects.
Event Photos
Disclaimer
The School of Cities received funding from CMHC to support the Level-Up Round of the Housing Supply Challenge. However, School of Cities bears sole responsibility for the accuracy and appropriateness of this publication. CMHC accepts no responsibility for the content, interpretations, conclusions, or opinions expressed in this publication or other materials resulting from the supported work.
