MUCP & IMUCP 2026-27

Partner organization: 

ArchoMod Construction Solution Inc. is a Toronto-based startup established in 2025 that was created to explore and implement innovative construction technologies that can support more affordable, sustainable, and efficient housing solutions in Canada. Archomod is currently developing a strategic collaboration with Coral 3DCP, a European manufacturer of 3D concrete printing systems. Coral 3DCP’s technology is focused on printing with real concrete, which aligns with Archomod’s interest in bringing practical, scalable, and construction-ready 3D printing solutions to the Canadian market. Archomod’s work focuses on the integration of 3D concrete printing, off-site production, prefabrication, modular construction, and digital design technologies. 

Project:  

The MUCP team will address a critical urban challenge: how to enable faster, more affordable, and scalable housing delivery in Toronto using emerging construction technologies. While 3D Concrete Printing (3DCP) presents strong potential, its adoption is currently limited by regulatory, technical, and implementation barriers that require multidisciplinary insight.  

The team will be challenged to investigate and design an intervention across three core areas: 

• Off-site prefabrication & scalable construction models: Explore how off-site production and prefabrication can improve construction efficiency, reduce costs, minimize disruption in dense urban environments, and enable scalable housing delivery.  
• Regulatory & policy pathways for innovation adoption: Investigate how emerging construction technologies such as 3DCP can be integrated into the Ontario regulatory framework. 
• Design & technical integration of 3DCP systems: Develop feasible and code-aligned design solutions using 3DCP technology. 

Partner organization: 

Barrie Housing manages over 960 affordable units for 3,500 diverse tenants. They co-founded the Beyond Homes Foundation, delivering wrap-around services such as food security, youth programs, and wellness initiatives. This partnership blends housing operations with social impact programming. The student team will have an opportunity to tackle real-world urban challenges in housing affordability, social infrastructure, and community wellness. 

Project: 

Barrie Housing requires a comprehensive strategy to modernize its housing communities through sustainable, inclusive, and health-focused infrastructure improvements. Current properties lack the updated amenities necessary to fully support diverse tenant well-being and foster deep community connections. 

To address these gaps, the student team will be challenged to design actionable enhancements across four core pillars:  

• Community health & wellness: Inclusive playgrounds, gardens, and active spaces  
• Connection & beautification: Public art and safe communal hubs 
• Sustainability: EV charging, waste diversion, and energy-efficient lighting 
• Accessibility: Universal design and barrier-free pathways 

The final design must include a strategic implementation framework detailing phased deployment, capital and operating costs, funding/grant opportunities, tenant engagement strategies, and long-term socioeconomic benefits for tenants and the broader Barrie community. mmendations for a framework of equity-based community consultation. 

Partner organization: 

Founded in 2018, the mission of the Black Planning Project (BPP) is to amplify Black voices and perspectives in city and community building, planning, and development with the goal of reshaping planning practice and facilitating more sustainable and resilient communities. BPP provides education and strategic advisory services in the areas of development consulting and provides strategic advice and research to help in building the capacity for organizations to conduct community engagement, community-engaged research, and partnership building.  

Project:

Recognizing that new public transportation investments and transit-oriented development could have gentrifying and displacing impacts on their neighbourhood, Mount Dennis community members have organized to establish the Mount Dennis for All Community Action Plan (2025), which lays out the community’s vision for a more affordable and just future for Mount Dennis residents. 

The student team will develop an Equity Scorecard that will be used as a tool to build evidence-based awareness of race-based inequalities among developers, planners, and communities. The scorecard will help guide development in ways that minimize negative impacts on existing residents – particularly those who are most vulnerable to displacement. 

Partner organization: 

The Canadian Urban Institute is a national charity driving place-based solutions to make communities better places to live for everyone. CUI’s mission is to work collaboratively with partners to address urgent social, economic, environmental, and cultural challenges while supporting long-term resilience, vibrancy, and prosperity in communities across Canada. 

Project:

The downtown cores of Canadian cities are vital drivers of economic and cultural activity, yet they have come under significant strain in recent years due to economic shifts, housing affordability crises, increasing levels of mental health and addiction challenges, and inadequate transportation infrastructure. While Canadian society continues to rapidly evolve, its downtowns remain vital to the country’s prosperity. 

Students will be tasked with producing a revitalization strategy for a primary or secondary downtown within the Greater Golden Horseshoe. Building upon CUI’s previous downtown initiatives in cities like Ottawa and London, the student team will analyze local pressures and propose transferable, forward-looking interventions to restore vibrancy to the selected urban core.

Partner organization: 

The Centre of Learning & Development (CL&D) has been embedded in the Regent Park neighbourhood since 1979. Beginning as a literacy-based organization serving the communities of Downtown East Toronto (including Regent Park, Moss Park, and St. James Town), CL&D has expanded over the past 45 years to support individuals across the city and the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). 

Project:

Finding accessible, free, and quality community spaces in Downtown East Toronto is increasingly difficult. Rising costs and lengthy processes create barriers for residents and non-profits, leaving well-known spaces out of reach while underutilized spaces remain hidden. 

CL&D would like the student team to explore this gap. Key research questions include: 

• What factors drive space accessibility? 
• Why have traditional access models changed? 
• Which current spaces or hidden opportunities are being overlooked? 

By addressing these questions, the project aims to build resource guides for finding space and develop models for local non-profits to share real estate. Ultimately, this initiative will strengthen partnerships, maximize shared resources, and boost civic engagement through highly accessible hosting spaces. 

Partner organization:

The Transportation Planning Department in the City of Brampton is responsible for both long-term and short-term planning, determining the layout of the city’s transportation infrastructure.  

Project:

The City of Brampton is updating its Active Transportation Master Plan. This plan, which formed the basis for the city’s walking and cycling network, needs to be brought up to date to match new municipal & provincial policies, reflect new growth and match industry best design practices. 
 

Students are challenged to create a series of evidentiary White Papers to inform the final master plan, which will consist of: 

• Comprehensive background policy reviews.
• Data analyses and spatial visualizations of shifting travel patterns.
• Strategic infrastructure recommendations. 
• Associated marketing and public engagement frameworks to encourage a sustainable mode shift.  

As one of Ontario’s largest and fastest-growing cities, improvements to Brampton’s active transportation infrastructure will deliver regional benefits, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and traffic injuries while improving public health outcomes and overall quality of life. 

Partner organization: 

As Canada’s seventh-largest city, home to 795,000 residents, Mississauga is a vital economic centre that hosts the Canadian headquarters of more than 75 Fortune 500 companies. The city has built a strong reputation for offering a high-quality balanced lifestyle, robust community programming, efficient services, and a welcoming environment for global talent and investment to thrive. 

Project:  

The City of Mississauga is seeking to formalize and expand its role as a “living laboratory” for urban innovation, applied research, and experiential learning. 

The student team will be challenged to research and analyze comparable international and domestic municipal–university collaboration models. Based on this benchmark analysis, the team will develop evidence-based recommendations on structural frameworks that would be most effective, scalable, and mutually beneficial to align with the strategic objectives of this civic-academic partnership.

Partner organization:

The Transportation Planning division within City Planning develops policy and strategies designed to address the wide range of transportation issues that affect the City of Toronto, at macro and micro levels.  

Project: 

Developed in alignment with the Jane Finch Secondary Plan, this project seeks to advance a Universal Basic Mobility (UBM) framework that supports the provision of affordable, equitable transportation options. Following the recent opening of the Finch West LRT, this pilot initiative seeks to develop tailored mobility solutions to respond to the varied needs of the Jane & Finch community. UBM operates on the principle that all citizens—regardless of their socio-economic status, location, or level of ability—should have a range of affordable transportation options to meet their mobility needs, including getting to and from work, school, healthcare, shopping, and recreation destinations. 

The project focuses specifically on the mobility of seniors in the Jane & Finch area, challenging the student team to build a data-driven rationale and operational framework for a dedicated TTC community bus routing strategy.  

Partner organization:

The Facilities Planning branch within the Parks Planning division of Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation plans and executes the city’s long-term Parks and Recreation Facilities Plan. Their work shapes the indoor and outdoor recreation spaces that residents interact with daily, prioritizing capital investments for generations to come. 

Project:  

Like many major urban centres, Toronto faces a rapidly growing population alongside increasingly limited land availability. While the City aims to ensure geographic equity of recreation facilities, finding parcels large enough to build traditional, full-sized facilities (such as cricket pitches and soccer fields) is becoming nearly impossible—especially in the fastest-growing, dense neighbourhoods. 

The student team is challenged to research and design a suite of innovative recreation facilities modified for constrained urban realities. The final output will be a comprehensive reference guide on ‘Urban Recreation Facility Typologies’ to help inspire new park projects. Designs will need to carefully consider Toronto’s severe weather variations and other local regulatory factors to ensure feasibility within a Canadian winter/summer climate context. 

Partner organization: 

For more than two decades, CivicAction has helped empower and catalyze collective leadership into impact, bringing together decision-makers, diverse rising leaders, ideas, and momentum to shape how our region works. Over the past two years, CivicAction has focused deeply on the housing crisis in the GTHA, particularly for the workers who power our region. During this time, it has convened cross-sector tables, conducted research, and launched the Mission: Affordable campaign to reduce fragmentation in how we approach solutions for middle income households.  

Project: 

The student team will explore how a representative workforce housing development model could be designed to support long-term affordability, delivery feasibility, and investment readiness. 

The team will tackle two interconnected challenges: 

• Financial viability modeling: Explore how different combinations of unit mixes, financing sources, public incentives, and affordability mechanisms affect project viability over time. 
• Social impact frameworks: Assess how workforce housing projects can define, measure, and communicate social outcomes—such as housing stability, workforce retention, community well-being, and reduced transportation pressures—to non-traditional investors. 

Drawing on CivicAction’s existing research, the team will help bridge the gap between housing ambition and implementable project models. 

Partner organizations:

Founded in February 2001, the Federation of North Toronto Residents’ Associations Incorporated (FoNTRA) is a not-for-profit organization now comprised of over 30 residents’ associations, which collectively include more than 175,000 Toronto residents within their boundaries. FoNTRA believes that Toronto and Ontario can and should achieve better development.  

Joining FoNTRA as community partners for this project are York Mills Residents’ Association, South Eglinton Davisville Residents’ Association, and Leaside Residents Association.  

Project: 

In August 2025, the Province approved Toronto’s new Protected/Major Transit Station Area (P/MTSA) policies. To align with provincial growth targets, the City is drafting mandatory “as-of-right” zoning changes by mid-2026. These new rules will automatically permit unprecedented building heights – up to 20 to 30 storeys within 500 metres of major transit stations – greatly expanding development permissions into existing neighbourhoods and local commercial avenues.  

Focusing on four case study transit areas in Midtown/North Toronto (York Mills, Mount Pleasant, Leaside (Bayview) and Laird), the project team will be tasked with developing a planning and design intervention. The framework must demonstrate how the City can meet mandatory provincial transit-density rules while establishing enforceable zoning mechanisms that safeguard neighbourhood liveability and ensure that these growing transit areas remain complete, functional communities. 

Partner organizations: Space to Belonging & Office OU are Toronto-based city-building partners working at the intersection of housing, placemaking, and neighbourhood design. We collaborate with like-minded stakeholders to advance people-centred urban development from vision to implementation.   

Project: The student team will pursue two connected research and design streams aimed at creating quality-forward, equitable developments:  

1. Quantifying the value of design: Quantify the financial and social value of design features that improve housing quality but are traditionally omitted from developer pro-formas—covering accessible unit premiums, unit access design, parking/transit ratios, involuntary overhousing, and outcomes from gentle density typologies (garden suites, laneway houses, and multiplexes).
2. The Common Ground Initiative: Convert the ongoing Common Ground Initiative into a publishable research report, which includes validating assumptions around leases, development costs and replicability across Canada.  

The design valuation work provides empirical grounding for quality-forward development, while the Common Ground report creates a citable, replicable model for affordable housing finance—both directly informing developers, planners, and policymakers, modelled on real projects that will be breaking ground over the next year.

Partner organization:

Helpful Places is a Toronto-based social impact enterprise dedicated to making emerging urban technologies transparent, accountable, and trustworthy. They steward Digital Trust for Places and Routines (DTPR) – an open-source communication standard. DTPR acts as a “nutrition label” for urban tech. In its simplest form, place managers use DTPR to create standardized public signage that tells people about the digital technologies present in their environment – what data is being collected, by whom, for what purpose, and what rights they have. In its most complete form, DTPR provides a full taxonomy and visual language for describing the entire lifecycle of an AI system in terms that everyday people can understand. 

Project: 

The MUCP team will bring DTPR for AI “out of the screen and onto the streets” of Toronto through a community validation research project: 

The team will be responsible for: 

1. Deployment: Designing and deploying a physical DTPR for AI installation in public or community settings in Toronto. 
2. Field research: Conducting “person-on-the-street” user research to test what people value and understand about the signage. 

Iterative synthesis: Synthesizing findings into recommendations for how the global DTPR for AI standard should evolve. 

Partner organization:

HousingNowTO is a pro-bono professional services collective that uses data, planning and architectural best practices to ensure that the City of Toronto maximizes the opportunities for creating new affordable-housing on surplus City-owned lands. They were founded in December 2018 to track progress and advocate for improve outcomes on the surplus lands identified by City Council.  

Project: 

The 2026-27 project will focus on repurposing surplus government-owned lands for Affordable Workforce and Student Housing based on a repeatable steel-frame modular tower development method imported from the UK. The student team will conduct a deep dive into the planning, zoning, architectural design, and financial viability of the deployments across candidate sites in the GTHA, utilizing real-time regional real estate and supply chain data.

This project will require field and mentor visits that may take place outside of class time. There is a possibility of a fieldtrip to either the United States of America or the United Kingdom. Please let us know if recieving a travel visa to visit either country might be a challenge

Partner organization: 

The Mount Dennis Community Land Trust (MDCLT) is a newly founded and incorporated non-profit. It will undergo an unprecedented urban transformation driven by major transit investment surrounding Mount Dennis Station, which includes GO, UP Express, and Eglinton Crosstown lines and is projected to become one of Toronto’s busiest transit hubs. This growth is occurring within a highly diverse, lower-income neighbourhood classified by the City as a Neighbourhood Improvement Area. Mount Dennis is home to a significant proportion of visible minorities, immigrants, households with children, and female lone-parent families. 

Project: 

The Mount Dennis Community Land Trust (MDCLT) needs to establish a cohesive governance structure and develop targeted policies that are equitable, financially sustainable, and both reflect and respond to complex socio-political landscapes.Students will engage directly with MDCLT’s leadership team and community members to co-design and develop a governance model and comprehensive organizational policies that reflect MDCLT’s values and long-term vision.

Partner organization:

Open Architecture Collaborative Canada (OACC) is a not-for-profit organization composed of socially minded community builders, designers, architects, planners, creators, and innovators. OACC has observed that prolonged land non-use is often treated in planning and development practice as a procedural by-product of urban change. These “in-between” conditions can shape everyday life in significant ways, including reduced access to shared space, diminished social presence, perceived unsafety, and disruption to local social and economic networks. 

 
Project:  

OACC is interested in understanding whether these prolonged “in-between” conditions are unevenly distributed across Toronto neighbourhoods and whether they point to broader patterns of spatial inequality. The student team will investigate this issue through a multidisciplinary, equity-informed approach using publicly available urban data. 

Ultimately, the team will use their findings to inform the development of tools or frameworks that can support pilot “meanwhile” space projects, while also opening pathways, over time, toward more accepted and responsive interim-use of lands enduring extended periods of development delay or transition.

Partner organizations: 

Our Greenway Conservancy (OGC) is a community-based organization working to advance active transportation, ecological health, and social equity in northwest Toronto. Over the last decade, they have co-developed a vision for a linear urban park and active-transportation corridor through twelve inner-suburban neighbourhoods.  

Evergreen is a national non-profit transforming public spaces in our cities to build a healthier future for people and our planet. With over 30 years of championing urban sustainability, we see the potential of our cities to solve some of the biggest issues facing our time and believe that our public spaces are the key to unlocking it. We see beyond the spaces that exist today and imagine them transformed into places where people and nature thrive. And we see a future where everyone can live a healthy life on a healthy planet.  

Project: 

OGC and Evergreen are seeking a multidisciplinary student team to contribute across four workstreams related to the establishment of the Loop Trail:  

1. Route exploration: Technical assessment of building along arterial roads, hydro corridors, and ravines, including connections to transit, employment, schools, and housing.  
2. Socio-economic impact analysis: Quantifying benefits to residents, businesses, and the City, with a focus on equity-seeking populations.  
3. Micromobility economic modeling: Modeling the economic effect of light electric vehicles and cargo cycles replacing car, truck, and transit trips — including cumulative affordability impacts.  

GHG reduction calculations: Estimating emissions and particulate matter reductions from deploying micromobility at scale, alongside the ecological value of natural infrastructure elements.  
  
This feasibility study is the critical next step toward capital implementation of a corridor supported in principle by Toronto City Council since 2020 — but stalled without dedicated research capacity. Its timing is urgent: the Loop Trail is actively moving forward, and OGC’s northwest corridor must be grounded in rigorous evidence to secure its place within that larger network and unlock phased public investment. 

Partner organization:

ReturnTO is a community-centered urban planning and engagement practice focused on ensuring that growth delivers tangible benefits back to the neighbourhoods where it occurs. The practice was born through work in Toronto, shaped by on-the-ground experience in communities navigating development, transit investment, and intensification across the city and the broader GTHA. ReturnTO addresses this gap by supporting both communities and project teams through integrated planning, engagement, and communication strategies. This includes designing and facilitating inclusive engagement processes, supporting development and policy analysis, and translating technical planning, zoning, and construction-related information into clear, accessible formats. 

Project: 

Over the past decade, Little Jamaica has experienced significant disruption due to the construction of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, resulting in substantial economic and cultural impacts. While The City of Toronto has worked on advancing important policy work there remains a gap in clear, actionable, place-based implementation tools that translate these policies into on-the-ground revitalization strategies for the corridor.  
 
The MUCP team will develop a Main Street Revitalization Plan for the Little Jamaica corridor along Eglinton Avenue West, building on existing City-led frameworks such as the Little Jamaica Cultural District Plan and the broader Eglinton Connects vision.  

The students will design a practical, community-centered revitalization framework for Little Jamaica that connects policy intent with implementation, ensuring commercial revitalization directly benefits existing residents, business owners, and the broader Caribbean and Black community that has defined the area for generations. 

Partner organization:

The Seaton Village Residents’ Association (SVRA) is entirely volunteer-run and initiatives are far-ranging, from communicating with local government, supporting community safety, liaising with stakeholders over effective development and housing, and running community events, to promoting green initiatives.  

Project: 

Vermont Square Park is a vital but strained urban green space in Seaton Village, a diverse, densifying community of owners, renters, families, and seniors. The SVRA needs to gather ideas from the community around Vermont Square Park and wants to prioritize equity and inclusion to ensure all residents are represented. 

The student team will work with SVRA to build an equitable, inclusive community vision for the park, creating a formal master plan, architectural design concepts, cost/timing estimations for requested improvements, and sustainable maintenance standards. 

Partner organization:  

The Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas (TABIA) is the umbrella organization of Toronto’s 86 BIAs who in turn represent over 90,000 business and property owners. TABIA supports BIAs by providing education, resources, collaboration opportunities, and shared initiatives that help strengthen local business communities across Toronto. Through research, workshops, partnerships, and the exchange of ideas and best practices, TABIA helps BIAs build vibrant, connected, and successful main streets. 

Project: 

This project focuses on the development of a BIA Impact Measurement Program that will establish the foundation for a longitudinal study of BIAs in Toronto. This work will position Toronto to build a robust, evidence-based understanding of how BIAs influence economic activity, the public realm, and community conditions over time. Students will be tasked with determining data indicators, collection frameworks, and spatial baseline definitions to launch this long-term tracking mechanism. 

Partner organization: 

Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) is Canada’s largest community housing provider, managing more than 60,000 homes and serving over 110,000 residents across Toronto. They are the City of Toronto’s primary public developer, with a pipeline of more than 10,000 new homes under active planning and delivery.  
 

Project: 

TCHC’s Regent Park revitalization is one of the largest urban revitalizations of its kind. The five-phase redevelopment project, which began in 2005, is transforming the community into a mixed-income, mixed-use neighbourhood. Regent Park has entered its final two phases of revitalization (Phases 4 and 5) and TCHC seeks support to build out the next generation of social infrastructure strategy that examines how built form, public-private interfaces and interior building spaces and uses can actively support social interaction and cohesion in the community.   

At the heart of these last two phases lies the proposed Central Plaza site, which will be a focal point for all Regent Park and the wider community beyond, and include micro-retail, a new Toronto Public Library, a large civic square, and indoor community spaces.  

The challenge for the student team is to create implementable, programmatic, and governance strategies for the Central Plaza that examine how built form, public-private interfaces, and interior building spaces can actively support belonging, safety, and shared stewardship among residents of different incomes, cultures, and generations. 

Partner organization: 

The Toronto Community Benefits Network has a strong community-labour partnership with a support base of workforce development agencies, learning institutions and funders. TCBN’s primary objectives are to: provide equitable economic opportunities that promote economic inclusion for all Toronto residents; contribute to the development of a system of training and workforce development programs that can enable economic inclusion; support social enterprises and other related vehicles to economic inclusion through commitments to social procurement; contribute to sustainable communities with neighbourhood and environmental improvements built through new transit infrastructure; ensure clear commitments and accountability from all parties to deliver on Community Benefits.  

Project: 

Major infrastructure projects have big impacts on their neighbourhoods. As Ontario is investing billions in new transit projects across the GTA, the provincial government has created a Transit Oriented Community (TOC) program to create high density housing close to new transit stations.  

The MUCP student team will look at approaches to TOCs and equity-based development models that have been successful in other cities and to develop a model that can work in Toronto. This framework will include top-down policy recommendations alongside grassroots resources, such as a community playbook, to help neighborhoods organize when faced with displacement or intensification challenges.

Partner organizations:

Toronto Community Housing (TCHC) is the largest social housing provider in Canada and the second largest in North America. They are wholly owned by the City of Toronto and operate in a non-profit manner. They are the City of Toronto’s primary public developer, with a pipeline of more than 10,000 new homes under active planning and delivery. 

 
The GTHA (Greater Toronto Hamilton Area) Community Housing Collaborative brings together the six largest public housing providers, collectively responsible for the stewardship, renewal, and expansion of housing across Toronto, Peel, York, Durham, Halton, and Hamilton. Representing approximately 40 per cent of Ontario’s public housing, the Collaborative serves over 150,000 tenants across 81,500 homes.  

Project: 

To meet the urgent demand for public housing expansion, providers must build a solid case for multi-sectoral investment. The student team will design an intervention to help the sector pivot from traditional, isolated housing metrics to build an actionable, region-wide framework that captures the social and economic value of public housing. The project challenges students to design solutions across two key areas: 

1. Design a multi-sectoral ROI framework: Synthesize existing data to model how public housing investments ripple out to impact regional economic growth, supply chain resilience, labor market participation, healthcare systems, and community stability, and determine how to effectively communicate these cross-sector returns to non-housing government ministries and private investors. 
2. Standardize GTHA delivery models: Evaluate how housing is currently delivered across the six GTHA municipalities. Students will identify operational friction and funding gaps across different local delivery models, ultimately proposing a comparative framework and strategic roadmap to optimize housing delivery and maximize ROI outcomes across the entire region. 

Partner organization:

The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is Canada’s largest public transit system, connecting communities across Toronto for more than 100 years. The TTC is foundational to the mobility network, with 1 in 4 trips in Toronto being taken by public transit. The network reaches all corners of the city, enabling access to employment, education, services, and entertainment for residents and visitors. TTC’s infrastructure has and continues to shape Toronto’s urban form and the connections between people and places. 

Project:

Currently, TTC’s Property, Planning & Development Department (PPD) provides planning and development support to TTC’s capital portfolio by assembling information on an ad hoc basis for each of its capital projects. This fragmented approach can limit TTC’s ability to consistently identify risks, constraints, and opportunities for implementation and construction. 

The student team will develop a tool that will consolidate all relevant land-use, infrastructure, planning policy, development, and regulatory data at the property parcel level, minimizing the risk of inefficiency, inconsistent analysis, and missed opportunities that could affect project design and delivery. 

Partner organization:

YSM is a local social service provider on a mission to break the cycle of long-term poverty in the lives of individuals and families.  We are an innovative and solution-oriented social service provider, grounded in more than 130 years of experience working directly with vulnerable individuals and families in Toronto. We address the immediate needs of those experiencing poverty and create sustainable pathways to end long-term poverty. 

Project:

While several supports and services exist unique to each neighbourhood, there is often a barrier to accessing the supports and services an individual might be eligible for. YSM has developed a Neighbour Helping Neighbour model which they believe has the potential for wide reach, expansion, and impact.  
 
YSM would like the students to address several components of this project including the design of the materials, the digitization of materials, a plan for embedding them on an online learning platform, and a communication and outreach strategy. Underlying this work is the challenge of the public narrative. Why are poverty related challenges so systemic, why does the political or public will for change seem so low, and how can that be influenced?