Featured project: Housing Assistance, Neighbourhood Change, and Residential Mobility

Prentiss Dantzler is a CGSP-affiliated faculty member and director of Housing Assistance, Neighbourhood Change, and Residential Mobility. He is also director of the Housing Justice Lab, a pioneering research initiative committed to exposing, analyzing, and improving housing justice across North American cities.

This fall, Dr. Dantzler has been busy mobilizing his research through various events and engagements, all toward the goal of advancing housing justice. Some of the highlights include:

• Serving on a panel for National Housing Day organized by the City of Toronto’s Housing Secretariat entitled, “Confronting Anti-Black Racism in Housing Development and City Panel”
• Delivering a guest lecture at Vassar College entitled “Racial Capitalism and (Re)production of Urban Spaces.”
• Supporting the launch of New Housing Alternatives, a SSHRC-funded Research Partnership that brings together a diverse interdisciplinary team of academic researchers, housing agencies, and community organizations to identify new housing policies and alternative housing arrangements for Canadian cities.
• Moderating the book launch of School of Cities’ Visiting Expert Carolyn Whitzman’s Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis.
• Serving on two panels at the 2^nd Annual Summit on the State of Canadian Cities in Ottawa entitled “Equitable Opportunities for Prosperity: How Infrastructure Builds Inclusive Communities” and “Choices and Opportunities: How All Levels of Government Can Work on Housing Production.”