Social Purpose Real Estate: Understanding Non-profit and Community Owned Real Estate

With some of the least affordable spaces in the country, Vancouver, parts of the Lower Mainland, Sea to Sky and the Victoria area are at risk of losing or compromising their non-profit and social enterprise organizations. This Internship, offered by the Social Purpose Real Estate Collaborative (SPRE) and Vancity Community Foundation, is intended to bolster the data and research available and contribute to a growing awareness of the situation and potential solutions. SPRE seeks to mitigate the impacts of the real estate market on non-profits and social enterprises. This Internship will help advance the knowledge and discourse, connect to the academic and non-profit community, and articulate the issues and solutions for community real estate in BC.

Faculty Supervisor:

Penelope Gurstein

Student:

Partner:

Vancity Community Foundation

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Finance and Insurance; Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Other services (except public administration)

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program: